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Recent Examples of dimout
In 1942 and 1943, the ball lowering was suspended due to the wartime dimout.
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CNN, 15 Dec. 2021
CNN, 15 Dec. 2021
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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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“Dimout.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dimout. Accessed 28 Feb. 2026.
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