circuit breaker
Example Sentences
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Diplomacy now has a live-market feed, one that operates on a 24-hour crypto exchange with no circuit breaker and is visible simultaneously to every government, hedge fund, and sanctions-compliance desk on earth.
From Barron's • Apr. 18, 2026
If you have to evacuate, you should disconnect all electrical appliances or turn off electric circuits at the fuse box or circuit breaker panel.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025
None other than Justice Antonin Scalia wrote that the jury functions as “a circuit breaker in the state’s machinery of justice.”
From Slate • Nov. 7, 2025
He said a protective system akin to a circuit breaker isolated the failed equipment, leading to a brief voltage dip.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 15, 2023
Once I reached the laundry room, I scrambled up the ladder and flipped the circuit breaker switch twice.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
