haywire
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Your mind plays all kinds of tricks on you when geopolitical events go haywire.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 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
I had heard a bit about this rehearsal process, and the part of my mind that needs to understand was just haywire during those first few days.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2026
The plunge in stocks — by about 30% in less than three weeks — sent their portfolio balances haywire.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 24, 2025
Like in an airplane when the oxygen masks drop and everything goes haywire, they always tell you to put on your own mask first before helping others.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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