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As millennials rushed out of cities and back to their parents’ homes, the housing market went haywire.

From Ozy

When taste and smell begin to come back, they can go haywire.

For example, we now know that energy production in aging cells goes haywire.

Reexamine your regular routine, and if something seems haywire, make adjustments.

The state system went haywire on Monday, several hours before the registration deadline, showing error messages and trapping people in user-verification pages that prevented them from completing and submitting their form.

That conservatorship expired, however, this month and, almost immediately a source tells TMZ, “Things started going haywire.”

“Every time a rocket was launched, my phone went haywire,” said Dor Eldar, a 22-year-old dance instructor from Tel Aviv.

But then things went haywire on Sunday, and 21 separate shooting incidents occurred.

Things simply go haywire outside the boundaries and cells (and people) die.

Wolf is about the American Dream gone haywire, so exaggeration is the name of the game.

I said our air-conditioning system goes haywire and that we were ripping out a thousand old boilers and coolers.

"Just my imagination going a little haywire from it all, I fancy," he said.

"Yeah, my guns went haywire for some unknown reason," he said eventually.

Horses with patched civilian harness gave the transport the appearance of a "haywire outfit."

We can't know, of course, but if you were a warehouse clerk and a big rocket went haywire, wouldn't you be out watching it?

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On this page you'll find 43 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to haywire, such as: berserk, nuts, psycho, screwball, amiss, and amok.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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