outage
Example Sentences
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OK, there isn’t much you can do about an outage.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026
A power outage at the course Tuesday caused interviews to be canceled, and streaming of the first round Thursday was down for about two hours because of what were described as technical difficulties.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
Perhaps your favorite bot is suffering from a temporary outage, and you want a backup plan.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
In December 2025, a large power outage in San Francisco led Waymo taxis to stop working around the city, causing huge traffic jams.
From BBC • Apr. 1, 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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