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
Nets have been placed over certain streets; in previous years metal kite strings have fallen on to electricity wires giving an electric shock to anyone holding them - and causing the wires to short circuit.
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2026
In the midst of one prayer, smoke issued from the lectern and I thought we had gone too far but it turned out to be a short circuit.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
