outage
Example Sentences
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Videos on social media have documented the outage, with one appearing to show it resulting in a highway collision, although police said no injuries had been reported and passengers exited their vehicles safely.
From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026
The outage is not the first time self-driving cars have faced technical difficulties.
From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026
Further tightening the market, an outage at Chevron’s Wheatstone LNG facility in Western Australia has removed additional supply, increasing Europe’s vulnerability to external shocks, the analysts say.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
“If this refinery sees a major multi-week outage, that would certainly be bad news for the refinery and for global prices,” De Haan said.
From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026
Believing the outage was evidence of the Martian invasion, some townspeople packed up their families to escape into the mountains.
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
