haywire

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One sign buyers are desperate to get their hands on crude that can bypass Hormuz is the fact that prices on either side of the strait have gone haywire.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

"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

The pair created their first last year in “Limos,” a limited-run production themed around a tarot reading that goes haywire.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2025

In movies, terrible haywire things always happen on people’s last night places.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson