circuit breaker

Example Sentences

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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

Homendy said that after the aircraft returned to Portland International Airport, no one pulled the circuit breaker on the cockpit voice recorder or otherwise preserved the audio, which holds only its most recent two hours.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2024

If your circuit breaker goes off frequently, check how much is plugged into that particular circuit and rethink your arrangements.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 20, 2023

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