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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
short-circuit .
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Examples
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They are one, and the limited idea of their being separate has short-circuited the necessary movements.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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Her fear that she had failed her childhood friend Lauren had short-circuited powerful psychological forces that could have strengthened her bond with her husband, made her family more cohesive, and given her children the example of expressing their feelings rather than stifling them.
The 7 Glenn Beck 2011
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This is, by the way, one of the unsung benefits of bankruptcy, is that it takes assets out of the hands of the people who got the company in the mess to begin with — a benefit we short-circuited when we spent billions of taxpayer dollars in the auto industry to keep GM and Chrysler assets out of new and potentially more innovative hands.
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As blades crushed ice, the power in the living room short-circuited and the time machine shut off.
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This may make perfect price-value sense to the beauracrat, but I know a number of people who would lose months or years of their life to worry — worry that could be short-circuited with an inexpensive biopsy.
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I learn that Barack Obama was very worried about the budget deficit and the â¨rising national debt very early--so much so that he short-circuited his own â¨bureaucratic processes and ordered reports from deficit hawk and OMB â¨director Peter Orszag routed to him around the NEC process.
Brad DeLong: Review: Ron Suskind's Confidence Men Brad DeLong 2011
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I learn that Barack Obama was very worried about the budget deficit and the â¨rising national debt very early--so much so that he short-circuited his own â¨bureaucratic processes and ordered reports from deficit hawk and OMB â¨director Peter Orszag routed to him around the NEC process.
Brad DeLong: Review: Ron Suskind's Confidence Men Brad DeLong 2011
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Their God-given ability to engage in moral reasoning is short-circuited.
Clay Farris Naff: What Westboro Baptist Got Right Clay Farris Naff 2011
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I learn that Barack Obama was very worried about the budget deficit and the â¨rising national debt very early--so much so that he short-circuited his own â¨bureaucratic processes and ordered reports from deficit hawk and OMB â¨director Peter Orszag routed to him around the NEC process.
Brad DeLong: Review: Ron Suskind's Confidence Men Brad DeLong 2011
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A car accident, the crossfire of a drug shoot-out, a collapsed building, a sunk ship, a short-circuited electrical line, a plummeting airplane.
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