haywire

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And, if it goes haywire after that, the Dodgers inevitably will be blamed.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 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

Ventyx has been developing treatments targeting a complex of proteins, called NLRP3, that researchers have found plays an important role in the body’s inflammatory response and immune diseases where that response goes haywire.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 6, 2026

The plunge in stocks — by about 30% in less than three weeks — sent their portfolio balances haywire.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 24, 2025

She looked sick, colors gone haywire, red around the eyes and blue-white around the lips.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell