How to Use rewire in a Sentence

rewire

verb
Definition of rewirenext
  • The best valet stands in town rewire your brain and set you in the proper mood for the night.
    — Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The failure rewired Lyles’ approach and set him up for the success of these past three years.
    — Sean Gregory, TIME, 27 June 2024
  • If this class of drugs rewires our brains and guts to think of food as just sustenance, the world will be so sad.
    — Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Still, flying to Cancun for a week of sun and sand is not going to rewire your brain.
    — Marta Zaraska, Discover Magazine, 17 June 2023
  • Adults can learn about rewiring lights, or chat with plumbers and roofers about their home remodeling projects.
    — Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The units have since been stripped to the studs, and electricians are currently working to rewire.
    — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2024
  • In just four little squares, Pyle was able to poke fun at the strangeness of human life by rewiring the way people think about language.
    — Sophia Scorziello, Variety, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Perhaps mindfulness could help rewire the OCD circuit in the brain.
    — Steve Volk, Discover Magazine, 10 Dec. 2013
  • Just drop some acid, the thinking goes, and your brain will rewire itself—you’ll be smarter, fitter, more creative, and self-aware.
    — Richard A. Friedman, The Atlantic, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Can Finneas ever see a world in which the brother-sister duo who rewired pop don’t work together?
    — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2024
  • Record rainfall in Los Angeles this spring has rewired the schedules of most high school baseball and softball teams.
    — Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Technicians arrived early to rewire the house and install the units.
    — Karina Bland, The Arizona Republic, 6 Sep. 2020
  • Small said the study is the first to demonstrate in humans that even small dietary changes can rewire brain circuits and increase the long-term risk of overeating or weight gain.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Wise has spent the past few decades trying to rewire the way Americans conceive of animal rights.
    — Molly Young, Curbed, 15 Mar. 2021
  • Annie and Jeffery did the same to rewire and add geothermal systems.
    — Amanda Sims Clifford, House Beautiful, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Dell computers is gonna, basically, we’re have to rip out all the server farms and rewire them.
    — Andy Mills, Quartz, 20 June 2024
  • Mastering both can rewire your brain to a more helpful channel and keep it there through any crisis.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • Both then and now, experts argued that a new technology was on the verge of rewiring the global economy.
    — Bywill Daniel, Fortune, 12 June 2023
  • If a delay is caught and addressed early enough, the brain is better able to rewire itself where needed.
    — USA Today, 15 June 2022
  • The existing station fixtures have to be rewired in order to accept LEDs, Crichlow said, so the job is not as simple as swapping bulbs.
    — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 20 Feb. 2024
  • That often involves finding your wants and needs, learning to trust others, and rewiring how your brain views attachment and self-worth.
    — Nicole Harris, Parents, 24 July 2023
  • It's been a hard, strange summer, which is why a long weekend filled with soothing ocean sounds and engaging beach reads can help rewire your brain just in time for fall.
    — Talia Abbas, Glamour, 4 Sep. 2020
  • Your brain will have its own way of processing this accident, and your brain can also rewire itself again to heal.
    — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 27 Apr. 2022
  • The church also hired an electrician, Riad Nasry, the owner of Alpha Electric, to rewire the room.
    — Tom Hallman, oregonlive, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Through a bunch of parallel-universe hijinks, Jughead is able to rewire the universe and return to Riverdale proper.
    — Kaitlin Reilly, Vulture, 13 July 2022
  • But in the sightless, these same neurons can rewire themselves to process other types of information.
    — David Eagleman, Time, 29 Dec. 2020
  • Business leaders can and should help rewire Gen Z to support their mental health and move them to a mindset that failure is a building block rather than a roadblock.
    — Dr. Talia Varley, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
  • So why the insistence from Haidt and others that smartphones dangerously rewire the brain?
    — Anthony Vaccaro, The Mercury News, 2 May 2024
  • The Commission is expected to lay out programs to boost the use of renewables and rewire the bloc’s energy imports.
    — Laurence Norman, WSJ, 16 May 2022
  • How daily activity rewires the brain Just as there is no one-size-fits-all brain injury, there is also no single path toward brain health.
    — Hilary A. Diefenbach, Discover Magazine, 20 Nov. 2023

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