brownout

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Recent Examples of brownout In simple terms, that means less power for increasingly electricity-hungry tech and manufacturing sectors, and a growing population—meaning higher power bills for everyone, and possible shortfalls and brownouts. Jordan Blum, Fortune, 3 July 2025 And then there’s the megawatt of power required to drive this whole thing, which comes from huge banks of capacitors slung under the telescope to prevent a brownout on the summit every 30 seconds all night long. IEEE Spectrum, 23 June 2025 Headlines warn of possible brownouts and blackouts across Maryland, citing growing demand from data centers and surging industrial growth. Joanne Frederick, Baltimore Sun, 23 June 2025 During past brownouts, including amid the Great Recession, the seven trucks saw their service calls more than triple, Olyer said. Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for brownout
Recent Examples of Synonyms for brownout
Noun
  • Traders will be paying special attention to the report, given the ongoing data blackout caused by the shutdown.
    Sean Conlon,Pia Singh, CNBC, 19 Oct. 2025
  • The plant has been without power from the electricity network for four weeks, the longest blackout since the war began.
    Caitlin Danaher, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • On a dark, drizzling January evening in 2014, Alyssa Gehman headed out to the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state to catch the midnight tide.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The next puzzle will be available at midnight in your time zone.
    Mark Cooper, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025

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“Brownout.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brownout. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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