rewire
Americanverb (used with object)
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rewires,
present (3rd person singular)
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rewired,
past participle, past
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rewiring
present participle
verb (used without object)
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rewires,
present (3rd person singular)
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rewired,
past participle, past
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rewiring
present participle
verb
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Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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rewiresimple
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rewiressimple
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have rewiredperfect
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has rewiredperfect
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am rewiringprogressive
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are rewiringprogressive
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is rewiringprogressive
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have been rewiringperfect progressive
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has been rewiringperfect progressive
Past
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rewiredsimple
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had rewiredperfect
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was rewiringprogressive
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were rewiringprogressive
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had been rewiringperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of rewire
Example Sentences
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This phase is now over, he said, in reference to past themes about the need to rewire an economy that grew too comfortable and complacent because of preferred access to the U.S. market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
“You must rewire your brain. I … urge … you,” she enunciated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
The brain can rewire itself—talks to two people on the phone—to do two things at once.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
The UK government is banking on AI, external to help "rewire" the state and boost efficiency across Whitehall.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
Now all he had to do was rewire the radio, send a message, and wait for his contact to arrive.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
Second, we already know that the brain is “plastic,” meaning it rewires itself.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 11, 2026
"The brain rewires across the lifespan. It's always strengthening and weakening connections and it's not one steady pattern - there are fluctuations and phases of brain rewiring," Dr Alexa Mousley told the BBC.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2025
In such top skaters, the brain accepts the slipping feeling and rewires connections in the cerebellum, an area linked to balance.
From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2024
The world's largest brain study of childhood trauma has revealed how it affects development and rewires vital pathways.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 5, 2024
“That’s amazing. My mother says they’re superhuman. Their second operation augments all their muscles and rewires their nervous system. And they’re so scary-looking, a lot of people just panic the first time they see one.”
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
Addressing staff, he said it would be the "nerve centre for a rewired Britain" and not a "short-lived gimmick".
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
You start to realize that it’s kind of rewired people’s brains.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
Electricity rewired civilization but took four decades to show up meaningfully in productivity data.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
The play, which takes place in the period predating smartphones, offers a microcosm of American life, not unlike the Grover’s Corners of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town,” before our brains were all rewired.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
“A little chat” means I sit down and Dad lays into me, but Holly Deblin must've rewired my head.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
The researchers believe this type of molecular rewiring could eventually have applications beyond lymphoma, including other cancers and some autoimmune diseases.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
Bare and Huddleston, two self-described “country hicks,” have become polarizing heroes of the rural campaign against the AI technology rewiring geopolitics, the economy—and now hometowns like theirs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Phillips, who last week talked about rewiring his rehab mindset, has already surrendered four home runs in just seven outings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
"That ultimately has to be our goal, as we see a complete rewiring of the global trading order."
From Barron's ● May 11, 2026
Finally he brought an electrician, who chuckled as he did the rewiring.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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