circuit breaker
Example Sentences
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After circuit breakers triggered once again on the Korean Exchange, a U.S.-listed ETF focused on South Korean equities saw a sharp rebound.
“For most of the past decade, megacap tech earnings functioned as the market’s circuit breaker,” he wrote in a Saturday note.
From MarketWatch
The failures included electronics and software faults, circuit breakers tripping repeatedly, damage to wiring, short circuits, loss of electrical current, and overheating of power system components.
From BBC
If you have to evacuate, you should disconnect all electrical appliances or turn off electric circuits at the fuse box or circuit breaker panel.
From Los Angeles Times
"Notwithstanding the imposition of circuit breaker restrictions, the decision-making in Northern Ireland was chaotic," it said.
From BBC
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