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dimout

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as in blackout

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Recent Examples of dimout In 1942 and 1943, the ball lowering was suspended due to the wartime dimout. — CNN, 15 Dec. 2021

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Noun

The next complete lunar blackout won’t be until New Year’s Eve 2028, with Asia and Australia at center stage.

— Marcia Dunn, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 Aug. 2026
The fees were so steep that other pay-TV providers, including Cox, Dish Network and, for many years, DirecTV, refused to carry the Dodgers channel — leading to one of the longest blackouts in sports TV.

— Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026

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The area’s electrical provider said power would broadly return to Munster, Indiana, by midnight on Monday and to Gary and Portage by midnight on Tuesday.

— Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 24 Aug. 2026
The 44-year-old worker was shot in the head and a 39-year-old man was blasted in the right leg inside American Best Wings & Pizza in Brownsville moments after midnight, cops said.

— Barry Paddock, New York Daily News, 23 Aug. 2026

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