downtime
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Sailors can usually expect some downtime on land every 30 to 45 days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
Taylor filled much of his downtime making more music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
TD Cowen’s Craig Hutchison figures that the two-to-three weeks downtime on top of the nine days since a power outage on July 18 will hit production by 8,000 to 10,500 tons of copper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
What I really mean is that, in my downtime, I’ve been steeping myself in things I already know will bring me comfort.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
Still reeling from my experience on the gallery, I was mainly relieved to have some downtime, but the others were on edge and found the lack of activity excruciating.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
“We’re going to see a traffic jam of patch releases and system downtimes as companies try to apply these patches.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026
This assumed that global demand would remain high for the remainder of 2022, the statement cautioned, adding it did not expect major production downtimes due to the unavailability of gas in Europe or missing parts.
From Reuters ● Nov. 11, 2022
But toy sales tend to be resilient in downtimes because parents do not want to disappoint their children, said Linda Bolton Weiser, an analyst with D.A.
From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2022
He’s shorthanded because only three of the 12 servers he laid off during the downtimes have returned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2021
At 30-minute intervals, he received faxes listing production rates and downtimes at Massey’s various mines.
From Washington Post ● May 22, 2018
