short circuit
Example Sentences
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These thread like growths, known as filaments, would keep extending until they created a short circuit and destroyed the pixel.
From Science Daily • Mar. 4, 2026
The fire may have been caused by a short circuit, he said.
From Barron's • Oct. 12, 2025
I could still hear the words, feel the numbness settle in, like a short circuit in my brain.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2025
The arcade fire was allegedly started due to a short circuit, and within a matter of hours the two-storey building had been destroyed.
From BBC • May 26, 2024
Later, we’d learn that there had been a short circuit somewhere among the hundreds of miles of wiring within the craft.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
