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
I could still hear the words, feel the numbness settle in, like a short circuit in my brain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2025
My mind flickered as if on short circuit, spitting never-ending images of anguish, anxiety, and sorrow at me.
From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
