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
  • There were some technical difficulties at first — sound would be spotty, streams would cut out.
    Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2024
  • No one wants to be the person holding up the boarding process because of technical difficulties.
    Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Due to technical difficulties with the livestream, the entire discussion was not available live.
    Staff, Journal Sentinel, 16 May 2024
  • After some technical difficulties, the meeting was switched over to the Microsoft Teams app.
    Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The British channel was scrambling after audio for the free-to-air channel had technical difficulties.
    Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Then one drone had to be grounded because of technical difficulties.
    Whitney Leaming, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The status conference was delayed due to technical difficulties with the WebEx feed, and the brothers were unable to connect.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 25 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • The event, hosted by the Free & Equal Election Foundation, got off to a rocky start with a series of unfortunate technical difficulties.
    Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 25 Oct. 2024
  • The former boy bander also fondly reminisced about the group’s go-to song for when technical difficulties with the speaker system occurred at shows.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The chit-chat about firing workers came up midway through Trump’s two-hour discussion with Musk, which was delayed by about 40 minutes by technical difficulties.
    Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • Trump's last live appearance on X was plagued with technical difficulties.
    Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2024
  • This is arriving late because of some technical difficulties on our end.
    Melvin Backman, Quartz, 10 Sep. 2024
  • The concept, which faced many technical difficulties, was cancelled in the early 1990s before a prototype was finished.
    Julie Boatman, Robb Report, 10 July 2024
  • 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
  • And, that was despite technical difficulties with the music, which Tran handled just about as purrrfectly as possible.
    Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Musk interviewed Trump on his social media platform, where the livestream was delayed over 40 minutes due to technical difficulties.
    Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 13 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • The laboratory and living space does, at times, show its 25-year age with minor technical difficulties—but it is scheduled to remain fully operational through at least the end of this decade.
    Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 July 2024
  • 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
  • Store manager Anna Duarte said stores across the country have experienced varying levels of technical difficulties, with the brunt occurring on the East Coast.
    Katherine Loren, Journal Sentinel, 19 July 2024
  • Silver said technical difficulties contributed to the decision to take down the election model.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2024

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