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rewired

  • past participle
    of rewire.
    rewire
    verb (used with object)
    to provide with new wiring.
  • past tense form
    of rewire.
    rewire
    verb (used with object)
    to provide with new wiring.

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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

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

The thesis was simple: As the internet became ubiquitous, the world’s communications arteries were about to be rewired, and those who owned the fiber would own the future.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

Livingston and Henderson rewired the switch and trained the deuteron beam on a carbon target for a quarter of an hour.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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