shutdown

Example Sentences

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And it wasn’t just USAID’s 10,000 workers who were lost in the shutdown.

From Slate • Jun. 9, 2026

Only now is the government getting a better grip on actual price trends in rents and homeownership because of technical problems caused by the shutdown.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026

No fuel resulted in engine shutdown, causing a loss of power and lift.

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

"From past digital blackouts in Iran we've seen that the restoration process can take some hours and isn't as streamlined as the shutdown procedure," the group's director of research Isik Mater earlier told BBC Verify.

From BBC • May 26, 2026

When it was time to store the fuel from one of the reactors at Fukushima Daiichi, operators would bring the reactor to cold shutdown.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland