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
The latest outage affected 140 of the airline's flights and 25,000 passengers.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
A Federal Reserve database used for monitoring banks experienced a temporary outage last month, triggering concerns from a top Senate Democrat about the consequences of cuts to the Fed’s regulatory staff.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
I explained that the phone had accidentally dropped onto the kitchen floor while I’d been talking to Thomas, but left out the part about the exploding grapes causing a power outage.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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And yet, despite a crisis of power outages, severe fuel shortages and dramatic price spikes, life in Cuba goes on.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Alaska has struggled with rising fuel costs in recent months, and it has faced curveballs such as IT outages last year and harsh weather that dented demand for trips to Hawaii.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
The nor'easter is already causing widespread power outages.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
Often when a Chinese company has released a new model, it has had difficulty serving it to large numbers of people, resulting in outages and delays, he added.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 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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