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troubleshoot

[truhb-uhl-shoot] / ˈtrʌb əlˌʃut /


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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

Anish Agarwal, CEO and co-founder of Traversal, a startup building AI tools to troubleshoot software issues, likened code-writing agents to cars that, however well engineered, can still get into accidents when they hit traffic.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 14, 2026

“With the vacation-rental or home-exchange sites, there’s no person to call, so we wouldn’t be able to properly troubleshoot if anything went sideways.”

From MarketWatch Feb. 19, 2026

That’s another reason Wicks will be on site, aiming to help those who may be new to AR, or to troubleshoot on the various devices audience members may bring.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 21, 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 Schwartau, Winn

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

If you need help troubleshooting a problem or have other questions, go to the DMV’s Wallet webpage.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

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

From MarketWatch May 11, 2026

Travelers are still hunting behind furniture for outlets and troubleshooting “smart” TVs that won’t stream.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 27, 2026

However, by rapidly sorting through massive health datasets, generative AI may allow researchers to spend less time troubleshooting code and more time interpreting results and asking meaningful scientific questions.

From Science Daily Feb. 21, 2026

Through 1935, the twenty-seven-inch had exhibited a persistent tetchiness that kept grad students and technicians busy troubleshooting in its innards for hours on end.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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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