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Summary:
Hitting cmd-space and looking up an application name (e.g. "Safari") I constantly see the search window of Spotlight showing "afari" only and the "S" was dropped.

Steps to Reproduce:
- as you would type any text/character sequence in a normal text field, type "cmd-space", "Safari" without visually waiting for the Spotlight search bar to appear

Expected Results:
- all of my "Safari" text input should appear in Spotlight search bar

Actual Results:
- the "S" is dropped and only "afari" appears

Version:
10.14

Notes:
It is super frustrating to not being able to continue typing in the usual typing speed after hitting cmd-Space to invoke Spotlight search bar - a significant blocker.

This happens on Mojave and it already happened on High Sierra as well and I thought it was due to my previously slow MacBook but I now have the most recent MacBook Pro.

Fun fact is that this worked better in older incarnations of macOS and got worse in recent years.