outage
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The airline struggled more than rivals after the CrowdStrike outage two summers ago crashed millions of computers around the world running Microsoft’s Windows operating system.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026
It turns out, a power outage hit the area, affecting the hotel’s WiFi.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026
The first power outage, prosecutors say, was caused by a loose wire in a switchboard.
From BBC • May 12, 2026
"We have our earthquake machine... Now we have to play with the parameters," said Frederic Massin, a French seismologist and technical expert, as he studied his screen for clues to what had caused the outage.
From Barron's • May 11, 2026
I hated that my experiment had caused a power outage.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
Vocabulary lists containing outage
This Week in Words: Current Events Vocab for April 24–April 30, 2021
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