Used with adjective complement

• become: The problem is that our lives have become hard-wired to the oil economy.

Preposition: into

• brain: They presupposed a basic knowledge that is hard-wired into the brain of a 15-year-old but which mine did not possess.

• code: Avoid using " magic numbers " --which are numbers hard-wired into code.

Modifies a noun

• alarm: Many fire authorities now recommend that hard-wired smoke alarms are installed.

• connection: Wi-Fi networks allow you to build a local area network without the need for hard-wired connections.

• system: Grants for building work in some properties have funded hard-wired smoke alarm systems.

• detector: Each individual home has also been fitted with a hard-wired smoke detector with a clearly audible alarm.

• installation: With the new wireless machine interface units, customers can avoid the cost of hard-wired installations and the typical annual maintenance problems.

• network: More and more companies are implementing wireless instead of hard-wired networks to reduce clutter and save installation costs.

Modifying Another Word

• not: Frequently these systems are not hard-wired but controlled using wireless technology.

• almost: These attacks on an almost hard-wired complacency are vital in terms of grabbing the audience and demanding that they listen.

Preposition: in

• brain: Symmetry perception is, it turns out, hard-wired in the human brain.