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Recent Examples of brownout
The fire department will modify deployment models, consider temporary brownouts and change overtime availability, spokesman Capt. Justin Sylvia wrote in a statement.
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Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 26 Feb. 2026
The issue of grid reliability and security becomes more pressing—utilities are worried about outages and brownouts, which used to be a summer cooling-season problem but could now occur in winter too.
—Michaila Byrne, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Nov. 2025
But even though the recent closures might most directly affect Fire Station 21, all 26 of Oakland’s fire stations feel the ripple effect of each brownout.
—Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Feb. 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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Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 26 Feb. 2026
The issue of grid reliability and security becomes more pressing—utilities are worried about outages and brownouts, which used to be a summer cooling-season problem but could now occur in winter too.
—Michaila Byrne, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Nov. 2025
But even though the recent closures might most directly affect Fire Station 21, all 26 of Oakland’s fire stations feel the ripple effect of each brownout.
—Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Feb. 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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Jost then turned to how Cuba has seen blackouts due to the collapse of its power grid, as well as an oil shortage.—
William Vaillancourt,
Rolling Stone,
17 May 2026
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Any disruption could also slow financial trading and cross-border transactions between Europe and Asia, while parts of East Africa could face internet blackouts.—
Mostafa Salem,
CNN Money,
17 May 2026
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Well after midnight, Bacha bought and distributed dozens of small cups of strong Arabic coffee.—
Rania Abouzeid,
New Yorker,
21 May 2026
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And as other hosts adopted a similar stance, more of midnight-TV viewership developed in the same way.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
20 May 2026
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“Brownout.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brownout. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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