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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An electrical short circuit started the fire, they think.
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And that's despite the fact they have attracted the best short circuit entry of the year.
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Capacitor C2 is included to reduce the gain at d.c. to unity whilst appearing as a short circuit to a.c. signals.
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Pedantry and intellectual theorising were not Basil's stock-in-trade; all such, he seemed to short circuit .
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The fire was reported to have been caused by a wiring short circuit .
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There is no shortcut to human fulfillment for men-just the short circuit of impotence.
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There was a short circuit Wednesday night on the side of the Cal State Northridge gym where the scoreboard is controlled.