hardwired

1. In computer jargon, a circuit is hardwired if it is built to perform a specific function and requires no outside instructions or program.

“Hardwired” is often used loosely to refer to functions that are innate and unlearned in living systems: “The ability to perceive objects in a certain way appears to be hardwired into the brains of mammals.”

Example Sentences

Some are hardwired to pitch in; their hands feel itchy if they’re not chopping something.

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Because I was born in 1977, thus placing me in high school smack dab in the center of the “killers are sexy” Renaissance of the early ’90s, I’m hardwired to find this all extremely attractive.

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"It's actually good not to be as productive or active as you would be during the summer months because our bodies are biologically hardwired for rest during winter," she says.

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“But children, they come hardwired, and I don’t think you can predict that.”

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Expectations of a rate cut on Wednesday had been so hardwired in markets that the focus had already turned to the central bank’s final meeting of the year in December.

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