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outage

[au-tij] / ˈaʊ tɪdʒ /


NOUN
suspension of operation
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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

It sounds small, but that’s the difference between six minutes of outage a year and 30 seconds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

The outage of a critical oil pipeline in Saudi Arabia adds another layer of uncertainty to already tight tanker markets, the U.S. bank says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

With his oiled-back hair and his smooth preacher voice intact, he leaned in close to his bible and kept chugging along, completely unfazed by the power outage.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx

A night before, an attack sparked a fire at a Yandex facility in the Ryazan region, causing major outages that affected transport and e-commerce platforms.

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 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 500,000 customers in Alabama and Florida were without power Friday night, according to PowerOutage.com, which tracks outages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 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

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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