haywire

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"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

But the women she’s asked are all in varying degrees of troubled transition, including but not limited to haywire hormones.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2025

His colleagues had discovered that removing the thymus in mice shortly after birth resulted in their immune systems going haywire and the development of autoimmune diseases.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 6, 2025

His mind buzzing, the threads on his arms going haywire like they didn’t know which way to point.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova