glitch

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Later, a stranger gleefully approaches Kornev, convinced he knows him, and the effect is chilling — a glitch in the matrix in which human connection briefly flourishes.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

The only glitch in the matrix: Rubio was not planning to bring any reporters on his plane, in a rare break with decades of precedent for US secretaries of state.

From Barron's • Feb. 28, 2026

It said it had restricted trading and withdrawals for the 695 affected customers within 35 minutes of the glitch.

From BBC • Feb. 7, 2026

Japan will switch the world's largest nuclear power plant back on next week, after a glitch with an alarm forced the suspension of its first restart since the 2011 Fukushima disaster.

From Barron's • Feb. 6, 2026

Titov had held out hope that some last-second glitch with Gagarin’s equipment would let him, Titov, make the historic flight.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin