haywire
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Throw in a stricter whistle from referees, who are less inclined to award fouls when Harden swerves out of the way to draw contact, and basketball’s great machine goes haywire.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026
And, if it goes haywire after that, the Dodgers inevitably will be blamed.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
"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
She looked sick, colors gone haywire, red around the eyes and blue-white around the lips.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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