outage
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U.S. natural-gas futures returned some of the previous session’s gains that were due to the outage on a pipeline in West Virginia operated by a unit of TC Energy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Transport secretary Heidi Alexander has called the outage "deeply frustrating".
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
By midafternoon Monday, Newark and nearby Teterboro—a key hub for private jets—were still under a ground stop, while other airports affected by the outage were undergoing ground delay programs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
The latest outage affected 140 of the airline's flights and 25,000 passengers.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
I hated that my experiment had caused a power outage.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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The weather service issued wind advisories and high-wind warnings in the mountains to highlight that “the wind itself could cause issues like downed power lines, power outages, road hazards and general nuisance,” Kittell said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
Pacific Gas and Electric announced it was also considering outages for customers in dozens of counties.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
Ukraine's largest private energy provider, DTEK, announced fresh power outages in the capital Kyiv on Sunday amid the attacks.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
More than 350,000 were in the dark in Florida and another 170,000 in Alabama saw outages, according to PowerOutage.us.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Kathy had grown up in Baton Rouge and was used to the hurricane routine: the litany of preparations, the waiting and watching, the power outages, the candles and flashlights and buckets catching rain.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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