How to Use technical difficulties in a Sentence

technical difficulties

plural noun
  • The tour will conclude with one more show in Las Vegas on Oct. 28, which was rescheduled due to technical difficulties.
    Sadie Bell, Peoplemag, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Veitch even leads a group prayer, foreshadowing the rest of the evening’s technical difficulties.
    Vulture, 18 Apr. 2023
  • No one wants to be the person holding up the boarding process because of technical difficulties.
    Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 12 Sep. 2023
  • After some technical difficulties, the meeting was switched over to the Microsoft Teams app.
    Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Then one drone had to be grounded because of technical difficulties.
    Whitney Leaming, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Well over a half-million people listened in on the evening of May 24 - to silence, strange echoes and intermittent voices due to technical difficulties.
    Hannah Knowles, Josh Dawsey, Michael Scherer and Marianne Levine, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 16 July 2023
  • There were enormous technical difficulties because the real planes of WWII are missing.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Rogers Arena revealed that the show was postponed because of technical difficulties with new equipment.
    Ilana Kaplan, Peoplemag, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The platform has also been plagued by technical difficulties.
    C Mandler, CBS News, 31 May 2023
  • And on Sunday, an attempt by Netflix to host a live reunion of the Season 4 cast was plagued by technical difficulties that saw the show starting hours after its premiere— and frustrated thousands of ready viewers.
    Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Some students who took the digital PSAT fell victim to technical difficulties.
    Aubrey Gelpieryn, CBS News, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Additionally, try to connect to the platform five minutes before the scheduled time to account for any technical difficulties that might arise.
    Luciana Paulise, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • The night was derailed by technical difficulties: the speakers were malfunctioning, and no one wanted to play the album under less than pristine conditions.
    The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Love Is Blind premiered in February 2020, and the show released its season four reunion special Monday following technical difficulties amid the streamer’s plan to air it live.
    Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Saturday’s outage is not the first time Twitter has suffered technical difficulties in recent months.
    Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 2 July 2023
  • Some technical difficulties somewhat killed the momentum that the final had at this point, but soon enough game four was underway with BDS needing a miracle to become champions.
    Mike Stubbs, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Their appeal was initially scheduled to be heard in the final months of 2023, but was delayed to the commission’s February meeting due to technical difficulties with the state commission’s website, a staff report states.
    Barbara Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2024
  • While their concept may seem simple, the execution of these agreements is often fraught with issues, from technical difficulties to poor consumer adoption.
    Erica Duecy, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
  • When technical difficulties interrupted a show, Emperor Claudius would send the stagehands to fight and Emperor Caligula would order a group of spectators to be thrown into the arena.
    Melissa Locker, Travel + Leisure, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The answer can be found in the video above, which features answers from every single cast member (except Frannie, who experienced some technical difficulties).
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 4 Apr. 2023
  • For video games, technical difficulties come with the territory.
    Will Bedingfield, WIRED, 8 Sep. 2023
  • But technical difficulties didn’t stop him from continuing his show.
    Griselda Flores, Billboard, 15 Apr. 2023
  • A few moments later, Johnson's video connected to show her giggling with Martin who had apparently helped his girlfriend with her technical difficulties.
    Meg Walters, Peoplemag, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Weed said on that trip, the crew experienced multiple technical difficulties.
    Joel Shannon, USA TODAY, 24 June 2023
  • The event was plagued by technical difficulties, which overshadowed the weirdness of the format: Musk, with a mumbling offhandedness, basically announced DeSantis’s intention to run before the Governor could even get a word in edgewise.
    Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 13 June 2023
  • Meta social media platforms experienced technical difficulties Tuesday, leading users to search questions on Google about the company's co-founder.
    Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 5 Mar. 2024
  • However, technical difficulties could surface as the Moon trips over logical Mercury.
    Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2023
  • According to several concert attendees’ social media posts, production crew said technical difficulties caused a two-hour delay, which Babyface saidstopped him from performing ahead of when Baker was to take the stage.
    Samantha Chery, Washington Post, 13 June 2023
  • Each expedition might have several dives — but just one for each client — depending on demand, technical difficulties and weather conditions.
    John Branch, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2023
  • He was supposed to appear at several court hearings, but they were delayed, with authorities first citing technical difficulties organizing a video link for Navalny.
    Compiled Bydemocrat-Gazette Stafffrom Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 26 Dec. 2023

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