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troubleshoot

[truhb-uhl-shoot] / ˈtrʌb əlˌʃut /


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The research into the side effects of IUDs typically does not leave women with clear answers; they’re often left to troubleshoot for themselves.

From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026

I know how to verify a system, troubleshoot a failure and stay calm when something breaks.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 12, 2026

With most of the batteries he installs, he can troubleshoot problems from his desk no matter where a truck is.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026

The crew had to troubleshoot system hiccups on the Orion spacecraft before setting course for a lunar flyby.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026

Line Monitors and Sniffers were commercially available, and legal; equipment that was nomi- nally designed to troubleshoot networks.

From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Winn Schwartau

I troubleshooted through zoom meetings and real-time conversations, and I was able to make the photos I wanted for three weeks.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 25, 2024

On Wednesday, with a full class of North Kitsap High School students in Poulsbo on a Zoom call, Campbell frantically troubleshooted her computer webcam with her school district’s IT department with no success.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 12, 2020

Retailers without the capital to invest heavily through a long period of troubleshooting are at a disadvantage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

For some of them, it was just troubleshooting; did I enter the wrong number?

From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2026

My wife does the bulk of the troubleshooting on these problems, bless her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

Agentic-AI systems will act on behalf of users — negotiating, troubleshooting and completing transactions directly with other systems.

From MarketWatch ● May 11, 2026

Back when JPL's Nerd Brigade hacked the rover and Pathfinder to be a poor man's IM client, they sent me a cheat sheet for troubleshooting.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

Her hosting provider, Simplecast, troubleshot her RSS feed to ensure nothing strange was going on, she says, and, “at the end, they were like, ‘That’s really weird, it must be a RadioPublic problem.’”

From The Verge ● Nov. 23, 2021

“In the fog system of ‘Hadestown,’ we found mold,” Mazzella said, in the “Hey, no biggie” tone of a guy who has troubleshot everything.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 20, 2021

Women put together, operated, and troubleshot work on these computers.

From The Verge ● Aug. 16, 2017

When Traffic Expert Danny Arnstein troubleshot the Burma Road, he found some bad bottlenecks.

From Time Magazine Archive


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