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brownout

noun as in outage

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noun as in outage

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That led the department to declare an emergency brownout, limiting stations that have two crews to just one on a rotating basis.

In recent weeks, as India suffered a nationwide coal shortage, many regions, including Rajasthan, began to see rolling brownouts.

There weren’t many holiday light displays during December of 1973 as Christmas carols came with brownouts.

From Time

This situation has led SIP, a company whose backers include Google parent Alphabet, to invest $100 million in what SIP calls a “virtual power plant” that could soon make rolling brownouts a thing of the past.

From Fortune

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On this page you'll find 41 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to brownout, such as: blackness, dark, dusk, gloom, night, and obscurity.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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