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Recent Examples of brownout
The city’s budget is completely underwater, and has to conserve resources by implementing brownouts and reductions.
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Claire Franken, TVLine, 1 Oct. 2025
Artificial intelligence power crunch Fewer renewable power plants could increase the risk of brownouts or blackouts, Smith said.
—Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2025
That included outages and brownouts ‒ drops in voltage that cause lights to dim and can damage electronic devices.
—Sasha Hupka, AZCentral.com, 23 July 2025
In areas where our UDC system has been deployed, the grid operator instead institutes a brownout, cutting power by 90 percent.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 Jan. 2017
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Claire Franken, TVLine, 1 Oct. 2025
Artificial intelligence power crunch Fewer renewable power plants could increase the risk of brownouts or blackouts, Smith said.
—Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2025
That included outages and brownouts ‒ drops in voltage that cause lights to dim and can damage electronic devices.
—Sasha Hupka, AZCentral.com, 23 July 2025
In areas where our UDC system has been deployed, the grid operator instead institutes a brownout, cutting power by 90 percent.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 Jan. 2017
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brownout
Noun
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Meanwhile, relentless Russian strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure have left millions grappling with blackouts and heating outages during one of the coldest winters in years.—
Alexandra Banner,
CNN Money,
24 Feb. 2026
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San Francisco residents pay some of the nation’s highest electricity rates and have experienced widespread blackouts linked to PG&E’s aging infrastructure.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Feb. 2026
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Hedda’s romantic picture — of Lovborg dying magnificently, with Dionysian vine leaves in his hairs, from a bullet of one of her own guns — smacks of the same literary cliches that has Emma fantasizing about a torchlight wedding at midnight.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Feb. 2026
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Women queued for hours, sometimes midnight to noon, outside near-empty grocery stores, scattering only when bombs fell around lunchtime.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 Feb. 2026
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“Brownout.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brownout. Accessed 28 Feb. 2026.
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