unwired
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of unwired
Example Sentences
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He was later a play-by-play announcer and sideline reporter covering college football and basketball games for an unwired radio network before getting hired to be the voice of Pepperdine women’s basketball for two seasons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2025
In this screen-centric age, a few scenic and relatively unwired places remain in the United States, such as Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in southern Arizona and parts of the Adirondack Mountains in New York.
From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2019
Google is spending millions of dollars on satellites, high-altitude balloons and drones to extend internet access to an estimated 4.5 billion unwired people around the world.
From Reuters ● Oct. 6, 2015
There’s profit to be made among the roughly two-thirds of humanity that remain unwired, of course, but its pursuit seems beatified by the messianic pursuit of one digital family of man.
From Slate ● Mar. 23, 2015
I unwired the lamps and peered at the workings of the electric kitchen clock.
From Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Doctorow, Cory
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