short circuit
Example Sentences
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Basu said that when the power went out earlier in the evening, she was in the shower and believed the outage could have been due to a short circuit in her older building.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
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
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
