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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of malfunction.

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Examples

  • How do they know the machine 'malfunctioned' - isnt a slot machine supposed to be random?

    Latest Articles ABC 2010

  • Those servers (which were lodged in the basement of a bank in Chattanooga, Tennessee) mysteriously "malfunctioned" during a critical period in the deep night of the election when a 200,000-vote exit poll margin for John Kerry somehow morphed into a victory for Bush/Rove.

    Harvey Wasserman: Do the Neo-Cons Need Karl Rove When They Can Count on the Democrats? 2008

  • From the description, the bottom portion of her bathing suit "malfunctioned" and exposed a portion of her posterior.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Digg 2010

  • The woman, who was driving a Kia Soul, told police that the vehicle "malfunctioned" when she tried to put it in park, Stigall said.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2010

  • From the description, the bottom portion of her bathing suit "malfunctioned" and exposed a portion of her posterior.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Digg 2010

  • Cancer-stricken woman robs bank in Florida; Colorado casino claims machine that awarded woman $42 million jackpot 'malfunctioned'

    FOXNews.com 2010

  • Cancer-stricken woman robs bank in Florida; Colorado casino claims machine that awarded woman $42 million jackpot 'malfunctioned'

    FOXNews.com 2010

  • Call me foolish - but if I was driving a vehicle that "malfunctioned" and "hit a curb", I might pause for a moment to inspect my vehicle to see what happened.

    Latest News Mariel Hart 2010

  • Cancer-stricken woman robs bank in Florida; Colorado casino claims machine that awarded woman $42 million jackpot 'malfunctioned'

    FOXNews.com 2010

  • A sensor of the unmanned Chandrayaan 1 spacecraft has "malfunctioned" and steps have been India may have to abandon its Moon mission midway, launched in October with a two-year shelf life, as its first indigenous lunar craft Chandrayaan-I lost a scientists around the world, Neil Armstrong's 'giant leap for mankind' was a defining event.

    WN.com - Articles related to GM Shipping Hummer Brand to China 2009

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