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as in daze
a temporary state of unconsciousness even though you experienced only a brief blackout, you still ought to be checked by a doctor

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verb

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Recent Examples of blackout
Noun
Madagascar In Antananarivo and beyond, thousands of young people rallied over rolling blackouts and water shortages. Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025 The Taliban have yet to comment on the cause of the blackout. Zahra Nader, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
Even with nearly a quarter of the country blacked out due to affiliate preemptions — protests and temper tantrums by station groups and owners, basically — Jimmy Kimmel Live! Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2025 At one point in the set, during a characteristically epic, multipart number, the music turned moody and the stage blacked out. James Parker, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for blackout
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blackout
Noun
  • Much like Metamorphosis arrived in the early aughts’ sparkly daze, Duff’s musical comeback also comes at the right moment in time.
    Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Amid the chaos of the shooting, a man walked through the banquet hall, stalking across the dance floor in a daze with a bloody wound, Homewood said.
    Chris Boyette, CNN Money, 21 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • And grocery stores where the majority of customers use these benefits could close, said Gina Plata-Nino, the interim SNAP director for the Food Research and Action Center, a national nonprofit that works to eradicate hunger.
    ProPublica, ProPublica, 3 Oct. 2025
  • FellinAI‘s first feature, The Sweet Idleness, imagines a world in which machines have eradicated 99% of jobs, leaving humans to a life of leisure.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • When the sky darkens, her stomach clenches.
    Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
  • With an athlete’s discipline, Blass refused to let his pitching darken his mood at home.
    Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Susanne would say, holding out both of her arms, and Catherine would faint into her arms and sigh, Natasha!
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
  • On three days in January, multiple Upstate employees left the prison in ambulances, with symptoms such as fainting and vomiting, according to local media accounts.
    Jennifer Gonnerman, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Matisse dressed the part of a British gentleman and gazed at his conversation partners with a serenity that bordered on a trance.
    Christopher C. Gorham September 29, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Wendy slips into a trance state and begins to channel Lizzo.
    Allison P. Davis, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • These services do all the work for you by actively monitoring and systematically erasing your personal information from hundreds of websites.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Those Padres quickly erased a one-run deficit and eventually won on a walk-off home run by Steve Garvey that remains perhaps the franchise’s greatest moment.
    Dennis Lin, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In some cases, if the blood pressure is too low, fainting (syncope) may occur.4 Fainting is a transient loss of consciousness caused by a decrease in oxygen and nutrients reaching the brain.
    Colleen Doherty, Verywell Health, 2 Aug. 2025
  • Redford, the host and producer of his weekly podcast, Vet Life, added heart disease and heart arrhythmias—where the heart beats too fast, too slow, or with an irregular rhythm—can also cause syncope.
    Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 June 2025
Verb
  • However, when your organization was founded less than 45 years after slavery was abolished, when Black women were still being forced to be wet nurses to the very children of those who oppressed them and lynching was a common occurrence below the Mason-Dixon Line?
    Essence, Essence, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The European Parliament has twice called for Yahaya’s release, asking Nigeria to set an example by abolishing the blasphemy laws under which he has been detained for over five years.
    Sean Nelson, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025

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“Blackout.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blackout. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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