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The county voluntarily closed the administrative building at 301 W. Jefferson St. and moved operations to a structure at 401 W. Jefferson to help APS prevent rolling brownouts in the area, according to a statement from the county treasurer's office. — Russ Wiles, azcentral, "Power likely restored by Wednesday night to most buildings hit by downtown Phoenix outage," 2 July 2019 Google has taken some steps to ensure that a similar network brownout doesn’t happen again. — Brian Barrett, WIRED, "The Catch-22 That Broke the Internet," 7 June 2019 The advanced autopilot, which represents a significant evolution from from previous versions, also helps modulate hovers and landings, even easing descents into brownout or whiteout conditions when visibility drops to zero. — Eric Adams, WIRED, "Airbus' H160 Helicopter Helps Save Pilots from Their Own Mistakes," 31 May 2018 West Bloomfield's main library was closed after suffering a brownout on Friday evening. — John Wisely, Detroit Free Press, "Heat is here to stay through 4th of July holiday," 1 July 2018 Public services officials warned Cincinnati City Council Monday that having too few sanitation workers will lead to trash pick-up brownouts, meaning trash left at the curb in Cincinnati might not always be picked up on time. — Sharon Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, "Stinky Cincinnati summer ahead? The city might not pick up your trash on time," 19 June 2018 Periods of high demand, such as a prolonged heat wave, can trigger regional imbalances in electricity supply and demand, leaving consumers to contend with price spikes and blackouts or brownouts. — Charles Bayless And, WSJ, "Upgrade America’s 19th-Century Electric Grid," 4 June 2018 The freeze prompted rolling power brownouts and school and business closings in the D.C. area. — Kevin Ambrose, Washington Post, "Historical photos of unparalleled polar vortex outbreaks in D.C.," 4 Jan. 2018 That means that North Korea earned more hard currency but had less power for its people, potentially exacerbating shortages that regular visitors say have caused increasingly severe brownouts in recent months. — Jeremy Page, WSJ, "North Korea Is Making Millions of Dollars Selling Power to China," 16 Mar. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'brownout.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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