outage
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It caused an electricity outage that left tens of thousands of homes and thousands of businesses without power for nearly a week in the middle of winter in the southwest of capital.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
Basu said that when the power went out earlier in the evening, she was in the shower and believed the outage could have been due to a short circuit in her older building.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
Faith leaders alarmed by the ongoing outage held a press conference on Saturday outside a local church.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
It comes after a power outage affected its control centre in Birmingham, resulting in mass cancellations across the network on Sunday.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
At first, I thought it was another annoying power outage; we’d been having them every day.
From "Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World" by Malala Yousafzai
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Yang Il-cheol, 31, who defected from North Korea last year, said citizens are focused on survival, having lived through fuel outages, starvation and chronic shortages of fertilizer, rice and electricity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Some users around the world reported outages on Netflix midday on Thursday when the preview dropped.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
The cause of the outages is under investigation, and it was not immediately clear if the heat wave played a role, Robles said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
A simple Google search of this management software continues to show on-going issues due to outages, ransomware breaches, cyberattacks and tech glitches that caused global classes and exams to need rescheduling.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
He argued that at this time of morning, viewership would be low, especially locally with the widespread power outages.
From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith
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