How to Use glitch in a Sentence

glitch

noun
  • Glitches in the speaker's schedule caused some delays.
  • A technical glitch caused a temporary shutdown.
  • That strategic glitch physically alters data in such a way that hackers can gain more access to the system.
    Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Black said utility e-billing has been in place since 2014 and this is the first time there has been a glitch with notifications.
    Jessi Virtusio, chicagotribune.com, 2 Feb. 2022
  • One routine after another was just a little glitch, a little hesitation, away from being perfect.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Jan. 2022
  • This mass rejection of law-abiding voters isn’t a glitch of TX #SB1, it’s a feature.
    Ariana Garcia, Chron, 15 Feb. 2022
  • But Bay Area hospitalizations and deaths, which were not affected by the glitch, are also leveling off.
    Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Maor recommends that companies look for glitches in the artifacts sent their way and look to introduce some randomness in their approach from account to account.
    Brady Dale, Axios, 9 Oct. 2024
  • But the agency was beset by an unidentified technical glitch that delayed some warnings to television stations and residents' cellphones by up to seven minutes.
    NBC News, 7 Mar. 2022
  • And, if your tax return has a glitch, the IRS will likely contact you via mail to clarify the issue — but don't count on the tax agency quickly reading your response.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 31 Jan. 2022
  • That includes some players who are sticking with the original version because of a glitch in the NYT site that made it so their existing streaks didn't carry over to the new version.
    Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 15 Feb. 2022
  • There was a bit of a glitch with the pen’s final batter.
    Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Apr. 2023
  • Jump to 16:16 in this video to see the Akuma glitch in action.
    Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 21 June 2022
  • But there’s a glitch in the matrix; too often, Black Thought’s voice is buried in the mix.
    Joe Gross, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Dave Davies learned the hard way this week what happens when there’s a glitch in the Matrix.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 16 Feb. 2023
  • As is the case with all new tech, there are design glitches.
    Clio Chang, Curbed, 7 Dec. 2023
  • The Voyager team is working hard to understand the source of the strange glitch.
    Katie Hunt, CNN, 21 May 2022
  • But when a glitch causes one child to be missed, Santa's youngest son steps up to save the day.
    Jessica Leigh Mattern, Country Living, 30 Nov. 2022
  • In the digital world, a glitch is a rapid-fire error loop.
    BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2022
  • The initial news of the talk was the big glitch: Users who tried to tune in at its 8 p.m. ET start were unable to access it.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Flowers is a 5-foot-9 big-play threat whose jump cuts look like video game glitches.
    Mike Tanier, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Is that a glitch or Frank messing with her head as some sort of punishment?
    Eliana Dockterman, Time, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Monday’s outage marked the second Twitter glitch in less than a week and the third in under a month.
    Clare Duffy, CNN, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The attack on Wednesday suggested that if there was such a glitch, it had been fixed.
    Marc Santora, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Jace struggles with his glitch and resists becoming part of the group.
    Jacob Siegal, BGR, 18 Oct. 2022
  • The glitch had no follow-on impact on prices or trading and was quickly resolved by the LME.
    Mark Burton, Fortune, 13 Jan. 2023
  • But rewinding the state of the universe plus an extra photon creates a glitch.
    Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 26 Sep. 2022
  • One of the last to do so, citing a technical glitch for his delay, was McCarthy.
    Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2023
  • There’s a ticketing glitch, and passengers have to buy new tickets to get to their cruise or to get home.
    Christopher Elliott, King Features Syndicate, The Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2024
  • There was also a brief glitch in Starliner's navigation system during reentry.
    Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 7 Sep. 2024

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