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circuit breaker

[sur-kit brey-ker] / ˈsɜr kɪt ˌbreɪ kər /
NOUN
safe shutoff for electricity
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“Without a circuit breaker in sight and the U.S. out on holiday, the bearish dynamics could continue ahead of the weekend,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 3, 2026

Diplomacy now has a live-market feed, one that operates on a 24-hour crypto exchange with no circuit breaker and is visible simultaneously to every government, hedge fund, and sanctions-compliance desk on earth.

From Barron's Apr. 18, 2026

They campaign for a short "circuit breaker" lockdown to try to drive down infections.

From BBC Nov. 19, 2025

None other than Justice Antonin Scalia wrote that the jury functions as “a circuit breaker in the state’s machinery of justice.”

From Slate Nov. 7, 2025

Once I reached the laundry room, I scrambled up the ladder and flipped the circuit breaker switch twice.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas



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