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- adjective electronics
Designed toperform aspecific task . - adjective electronic communications Of
devices ,closely ortightly coupled . - adjective computing Having a
fixed placement (on a screen format for example.) - adjective Not changeable.
- adjective In humans and animals, genetically determined, instinctive behavior, as opposed to learned behavior.
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Examples
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I stopped reading after "hard working families"... it's a phrase hardwired into my brain to make it stop listening when someone lapses into politician-speak.
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The flip side of this "hardwired" concept of what is fair is what happens when a previously oppressed or cheated person or group of people find themselves in charge.
Economics and Evolution, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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McGinnis talks about pain becoming "hardwired" in the body, becoming a disease unto itself.
Brigid Brett: The Long Shelf of War Brigid Brett 2010
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McGinnis talks about pain becoming "hardwired" in the body, becoming a disease unto itself.
Brigid Brett: The Long Shelf of War Brigid Brett 2010
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McGinnis talks about pain becoming "hardwired" in the body, becoming a disease unto itself.
Brigid Brett: The Long Shelf of War Brigid Brett 2010
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Societies have historically rebelled against extremes of inequality, and recent studies have even suggested that the human brain is "hardwired" to dislike inequity.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: We're Better off Than Egypt -- Right? Let's Take a Look. RJ 2011
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Societies have historically rebelled against extremes of inequality, and recent studies have even suggested that the human brain is "hardwired" to dislike inequity.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: We're Better off Than Egypt -- Right? Let's Take a Look. RJ 2011
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I'm saying it's "hardwired" in the sense that walking is hardwired; that there's a general ability to learn and think abstractly, but nothing that would go so far as a Chomskyan "deep grammar".
Economics and Evolution, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Societies have historically rebelled against extremes of inequality, and recent studies have even suggested that the human brain is "hardwired" to dislike inequity.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: We're Better off Than Egypt -- Right? Let's Take a Look. RJ 2011
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McGinnis talks about pain becoming "hardwired" in the body, becoming a disease unto itself.
Brigid Brett: The Long Shelf of War Brigid Brett 2010
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