unplugged
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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A liquefaction train, which cools the gas, is like a giant refrigerator, but unlike an unplugged fridge at home, restoring it could take weeks.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 8, 2026
That makes us all time travelers of a sort, too, beacons of an increasingly distant era in which it was possible to be unplugged.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2026
In 2020, economist Paul Milgrom unplugged the phone when the Nobel committee called - in the middle of the night - to tell him he had won the Nobel for economics.
From BBC • Oct. 7, 2025
And it seems that for most people, being unplugged and out in the world would be a dealbreaker.
From Salon • Jul. 1, 2025
In the absence of the Batys and Pris he found himself fading out, becoming strangely like the inert television set which he had just unplugged.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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