short circuit
Example Sentences
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Choosing an apprenticeship is a short circuit around an increasingly crowded university-educated job market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
Adams pointed to social media platforms like X as evidence that machines “can easily short circuit our sense of human accountability and responsibility.”
From Salon ● Mar. 30, 2026
These thread like growths, known as filaments, would keep extending until they created a short circuit and destroyed the pixel.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 4, 2026
Local broadcaster NDTV, citing unnamed police officials, said that a short circuit may have sparked the fire.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2025
Later, we’d learn that there had been a short circuit somewhere among the hundreds of miles of wiring within the craft.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
