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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of unwire.

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Examples

  • I would not be surprised to soon see a similar jump in unwired televisions, now that the realization of free over-the-air digital TV is finally sinking in.

    Snip! Nearly One-Fifth of Homes Have No Landline - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • The New York Times this morning, for instance, had a multipage ad section focusing on wireless -- the first two-page spread in the section had the word unwired in about 700-point type.

    Wi-Fi Networking News 2009

  • California's famous Silicon Valley and Suffolk and Nassau counties on Long Island in New York are engaged in projects to make huge swaths of land "unwired," while a consortium of cities in Utah is bringing fiber-optics into every home with speeds matching those in East Asia - the most wired region in the world.

    Bruce Lai: The Future of Digital New York City 2008

  • One thing I don't regret is failing to blog while away; getting "unwired" was a novel experience in its own right although my cellphone served as a handy umbilicus to cyberspace.

    Archive 2006-06-01 Mac 2006

  • I figure it's high time to start doing my blog writing "unwired" and update when I can.

    Musings of a Drunken Monk: August 2004 Archives 2004

  • I figure it's high time to start doing my blog writing "unwired" and update when I can.

    Musings of a Drunken Monk: A Town Called Gyoda 2004

  • I figure it's high time to start doing my blog writing "unwired" and update when I can.

    Musings of a Drunken Monk: August 12, 2004 Archives 2004

  • The psyche, as a technological realm of semiotic expression, is not in itself shifting; but in our current relations of production, in which our minds are interfacing with digital networks, we are ironically becoming "unwired" from our binary (the basic two digits) understanding of our own communication.

    Warren Ellis 2009

  • These "unwired" consumers, are accessing the mobile Internet on their phones due to widespread and affordable wireless access.

    Press Releases 2008

  • World Report's "America's Best Colleges 2008" ranks SHU among the best master's universities in the North, and Intel rates it #11 among the nation's most "unwired" campuses.

    Media Newswire 2008

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