circuit breaker
Example Sentences
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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
Both Wales and Northern Ireland put in place versions of a circuit breaker lockdown, while in Scotland stricter rules are imposed in the central belt.
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
One day when I go downstairs to flip the circuit breaker, I catch Hunter on all fours, trying to walk like a vuvv, with his back to the floor.
From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson
