How to Use troubleshoot in a Sentence

troubleshoot

verb
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  • The job isn’t to be the bowl boss but to troubleshoot and promote.
    — Blair Kerkhoff, kansascity, 14 Dec. 2017
  • Engineers back on Earth worked with the life-sized copy of the rover back on Earth to troubleshoot the issue.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 19 Mar. 2022
  • Casto came down from the wheelhouse, and joined Grant and other crew to troubleshoot the leak.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 4 Apr. 2022
  • That leads you to ask more questions and dig deeper to troubleshoot.
    — Dr. Augustine Fou, Forbes, 11 May 2021
  • Here's how to get yours, and how to troubleshoot common problems.
    — Medea Giordano, Wired, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Was a hair-trigger abort necessary to keep the crew alive, or might there be time in the landing to troubleshoot the alarm?
    — Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 5 July 2019
  • The idea, says Christensen, is to be able to troubleshoot issues that can cause big delays.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Our Test Kitchen pros explain how to light a propane grill, then describe how to troubleshoot when a gas grill won't light.
    — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Mar. 2022
  • The control tower asked the pilot to circle the airport to troubleshoot the problem.
    — Marc Daalder, Detroit Free Press, 26 June 2018
  • Think hiking four miles to troubleshoot a heater problem.
    — Arianne Cohen, Bloomberg.com, 14 June 2020
  • While the team was able to troubleshoot that, they were stymied by an engine that refused to cool properly.
    — WIRED, 9 Sep. 2022
  • If not work, then on making progress in your health journey, or on troubleshooting your life in some way.
    — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Apr. 2024
  • In the rest of the episode, the pair work together to troubleshoot a family recipe that Garner couldn’t quite replicate on her own.
    — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 15 Apr. 2024
  • In the movie, there’s a sequence where the astronauts are trying to troubleshoot a piece of electronics.
    — Stephen Wolfram, WIRED, 3 Apr. 2018
  • The announcement came after hours working to troubleshoot the leak.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 3 Sep. 2022
  • Trost said the operator had left the train cab to troubleshoot the issue, finding a brake problem in the second to last car.
    — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Oct. 2022
  • In some ways, almost no clinic staffers are better equipped to troubleshoot a crisis than those in Texas.
    — Marie Solis, Fortune, 26 Feb. 2021
  • For the employer, this can create an easy, rapid way to troubleshoot challenges.
    — Samir Wagle, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2021
  • The mechanic had not left his seat to show off or troubleshoot any emergency.
    — Andrea Pitzer, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2022
  • The two-hour launch window, until 3:04 a.m., gives time to troubleshoot any problems or wait out bad weather.
    — Kenneth Chang, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Over the weekend team members were troubleshooting at 3 a.m. with colleagues across the country on spring break with their kids.
    — Paul J. Hastings, STAT, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Make Dinner Choose the same recipe, then troubleshoot unrisen doughs and boiled-over rice pots together.
    — Amanda Sims Clifford, House Beautiful, 23 Apr. 2020
  • After all, the point is to troubleshoot any parts in your podcast that may need further editing or re-recording.
    — NBC News, 9 Dec. 2019
  • To help, here are some ways to troubleshoot and, hopefully, improve the quality of the Wi-Fi inside and outside your place.
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Three maintenance workers, attempting to troubleshoot the leak, were the first killed.
    — Alexis Stevens, ajc, 23 July 2021
  • The idea was to create a flexible operation that can troubleshoot on the fly.
    — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 21 Oct. 2021
  • The teams were judged on their ability to troubleshoot and get to the root of each issue in a timely and systematic manner.
    — Rich Heileman, cleveland, 28 Feb. 2020
  • Here’s a smaller change: Right-clicking the volume icon on the Taskbar includes an option to troubleshoot sound problems.
    — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 8 July 2021
  • Users will be able to check on repair status and find troubleshooting information.
    — Chris Sims, The Courier-Journal, 12 June 2024
  • Over the ensuing months, engineers worked to troubleshoot the problem, a tedious and complicated process given the vast distance between Earth and Voyager 1.
    — Max Hauptman, USA TODAY, 17 June 2024

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