Hi @Joseph Gaul ,
Does this happen only when you are typing in the search box? what about typing in other text boxes? It seems to be a server performance related issue. Try to reboot all your SharePoint servers and test on another client server. Also, please check if CPU, memory and disk occupancy is high.
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