short circuit
Example Sentences
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Adams pointed to social media platforms like X as evidence that machines “can easily short circuit our sense of human accountability and responsibility.”
From Salon • Mar. 30, 2026
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
These batteries can produce extreme heat and fire if damage or manufacturing faults cause them to short circuit.
From BBC • Mar. 14, 2025
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
