outage
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But management claimed residents had been kept informed since the outage began and that it intended to hold a residents' meeting in the near future.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
Revolut has been hit by an outage which it says is impacting "multiple services", as thousands of customers report problems.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
The government agency declined to comment on the outage that several bankruptcy courts say began Oct.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
“The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street,” from the first season, depicted the effects of a power outage on an ordinary neighborhood and warned about the minds of mobs and the perils of prejudice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Maybe whatever caused the power outage has finally begun to calm.
From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner
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At the same time, some have vastly expanded the range of worst-case scenarios they have planned for, going beyond their traditional drills for events such as power outages, fires or armed militia near polling places.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
The harsh weather battering the UK has left more than 47,000 customers in Scotland without power, Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks said on Sunday, while 2,610 properties have faced outages in Cumbria in England.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
"The power outages here happen every day and we have to keep hauling water," said 40-year-old mother of two Yusimy Guerra.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
Limiting power through planned cuts or emergency outages will hit the utility's ability to pump water, including to high-rise apartment blocks, he told epravda.com recently.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
I’d suffered the aftereffects, of course—power outages across the camp, White Noise when the camp controllers thought one of them had done it on purpose.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
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