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wired

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verb

past tense of wire

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of wired
Adjective
For drivers seeking simplicity, the coin-sized MINI Cube converts any wired car connection to reliable wireless. New Atlas, 27 Nov. 2025 As for wired charging, leaker Ice Universe reports the S26 Ultra could get up to 60W speeds, a big jump from 45W on the S25 Ultra. PC Magazine, 11 Nov. 2025 The set-up, with its romantic tensions still cross-wired after all these years, seems promising. Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025 There is no good reason to automatically allow wired connections when unlocked. Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for wired
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wired
Adjective
  • There is enough potential that the site was chosen for the 2025 Rocky Mountain Real Estate Challenge, which featured graduate students from the University of Denver and the University of Colorado Boulder who were tasked with coming up with ideas for how to revive the troubled site.
    John Aguilar, Denver Post, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Colin painted a picture of himself as a man working hard to keep his family together, struggling to connect with his troubled son.
    Kat Greene, AJC.com, 2 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • The medals in the Turin 2006 Games bypassed the issue entirely by featuring a large hole at the center of the medal itself, with the ribbon elegantly threaded through the middle.
    Eric Sullivan, Scientific American, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Four of them came against Qarabag, the first arriving in the third minute, when Dan Burn, channelling his inner Andrea Pirlo, threaded the ball through to Gordon, who shot across goal with his right foot.
    George Caulkin, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • Dickinson appeared somewhere between perturbed and seething.
    Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 19 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • So far, Iran’s proxies have not carried out retaliatory attacks tied to the strikes against Iran, though that could change.
    Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Petite in shape yet powerful in presence, unofficial popularity rankings have Prada’s silk green tied with Celine’s leather cobalt blue for first place.
    Talia Abbas, Vogue, 28 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • The Pirates, making their best effort at an upset, went up seven with less than eight minutes to play before UConn’s captain made a pair of 3-point shots to evaporate the deficit.
    Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Lots of people were upset that Fraschilla won’t be on the broadcast, but many KU supporters applauded the move.
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 27 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • The scheme shocks their high-strung son Harold (Roberts), whose wife, Neha (Gill), is a local police officer.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The combination of the car weighing less than 1,750 pounds, its slippery shape, and its high-strung engine, allows the 202 to nudge 105 mph.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 13 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • Many of the world’s most valuable software stocks have seen major selloffs in recent months as investors got jittery and worried about the future of the once-vaunted software-as-a-service (SaaS) business model.
    Kai Nicol-Schwarz, CNBC, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Nvidia reported stronger-than-expected earnings on Wednesday, possibly calming a jittery market.
    J.D. Capelouto, semafor.com, 26 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • On February 13th, Grace Van Patten and Jackson White and Grace Gummer and Mark Ronson watched Veronica Leoni’s Calvin Klein Collection come down the runway, while Rebecca Hall and Morgan Spector bounded between Fforme and Kallmeyer.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Photos shared by the department show a silvery gray fox bounding majestically across a white snowy plain beneath towering, sunlit alpine peaks.
    Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2026

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“Wired.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wired. Accessed 3 Mar. 2026.

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