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haywire

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adverb

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for haywire
Adjective
  • However, this particular squadron has a habit of driving their Handlers mad, as its leader, Shin, is known as the Undertaker.
    Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Meanwhile, Isaac, playing mad scientist Viktor Frankenstein, re-emerges after a three-year film absence, reminding Hollywood to put this guy in more movies.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 1 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Springer transformed from payroll anchor to potential down-ballot MVP candidate.
    Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Season 4 ended on a bit of a down note, with a major character death, and lots of family trouble for River Cartwright to navigate.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Brown's attorneys had said Brown could at times appear psychotic.
    Kevin Grasha, Cincinnati Enquirer, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Psychologists and psychiatrists are scrambling to better understand how use of chatbots can fuel delusions and drive psychotic episodes.
    Amy Feldman, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Hydroplaning is the term for when a vehicle begins sliding uncontrollably on wet roads.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Hydroplaning is when a vehicle starts uncontrollably sliding on wet roads.
    STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • For her, the loss of $40 isn’t the real issue, but rather the broken trust and the strange turn the situation has taken.
    Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
  • As the family unravels, Genevieve must summon the courage to save her broken family – and herself – but not without a cost.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Stines’ defense attorneys, Jeremy and Kerri Bartley, say the sheriff was insane at the time of the killing and want his full mental health report – which is currently sealed – released to the public.
    Andy Rose, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Making straight men insane comes with the territory on one of TV’s most-talked about shows of the last five years (House of the Dragon continues to rack up toward 10 million viewers per ep).
    Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • That seems like a crazily low number of songs.
    Carson Blackwelder, People.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Guessing crazily at the future, the gambler is granted, briefly, the gift of now.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • This method is a significant departure from traditional chemical recycling techniques like pyrolysis, which operate at lower temperatures (450–600°C) and produce over a hundred different by-products, many of which are useless.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Economists usually look at new jobs, but immigration is now very low, making that figure useless as a measure of how the economy is doing.
    Bill Conerly, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
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“Haywire.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/haywire. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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