haywire

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"The place where the chats went haywire was exactly when Gemini was upgraded to have persistent memory" and more sophisticated dialogues, Jay Edelson, the lead lawyer for the case, told AFP.

From Barron's • Mar. 4, 2026

The plunge in stocks — by about 30% in less than three weeks — sent their portfolio balances haywire.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 24, 2025

The pair created their first last year in “Limos,” a limited-run production themed around a tarot reading that goes haywire.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2025

His colleagues had discovered that removing the thymus in mice shortly after birth resulted in their immune systems going haywire and the development of autoimmune diseases.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 6, 2025

As for the lab’s operational technique, he was “amazed at how haywire things were, how sloppy the work was, and how many things could be improved.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik