outage
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U.S. natural gas futures posted their biggest-single-day gain since January as a pipeline outage in West Virginia led to supply disruptions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Crude futures fell as the supply fears fueled by the outage of Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline eased, and oil continued to make it through the Strait of Hormuz via ship-to-ship loadings and dark transits.
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
The country's entire electricity grid suffered "total disconnection" that triggered a nationwide outage, Cuba's energy ministry said.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
I step outside to see if it’s a power outage everywhere or just in our apartment.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
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The BBC's Ukraine correspondent Dan Johnson reports from Kyiv, where Ukrainians are facing another winter with electricity outages that leave people without heat, light or even water.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
The explosive, unexpected success of Anthropic’s Claude Code had created a computing crunch, contributing to frequent outages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
Due to the strikes, about 100,000 households in Kyiv and the region suffered internet outages.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Hours after the interview, service on the Kyiv metro was temporarily suspended due to power outages.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Aunty Ifeoma was cleaning out the freezer, which had started to smell because of the incessant power outages.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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