brownout

Example Sentences

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Critics say wind farm projects are expensive, damage the environment and make the electrical grid less stable and more prone to brownout and blackouts.

From Washington Times • Nov. 28, 2023

In the same way that high-energy appliances will be disproportionately affected when voltage levels drop during a metropolitan brownout, even small reductions in mitochondrial function can have large effects on the brain, Wallace says.

From Scientific American • Jun. 18, 2021

Inside the former warehouse, the bar is replete with dark wood and brownout lighting.

From Washington Post • Jan. 10, 2019

There were many reasons to hope that this collection of letters would be great or near-great, yet “Selected Letters of Norman Mailer” is mostly low-wattage, a rolling brownout of his vast intellect and talent.

From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2014

Finally there was a brownout in the distance and Milton cheerily called out, “Ready!”

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides