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downtimes

noun

plural of downtime

as in winters

a period of often involuntary inactivity or idleness a knee operation that could result in months of downtime for the ski racer

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Recent Examples of downtimes These trends often materialize in batch changeovers, supplier changes, line downtimes and traceability challenges. — Ihor Yurchenko, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026 The average response time for phone calls dropped to 6 minutes from 30 minutes in the prior fiscal year; field office wait times decreased to 23 minutes; and removal of online service downtimes has benefited an additional 125,000 users in a single week, according to the agency's findings. — Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025

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More utility-scale renewables are online, and people and businesses across Ukrainian society have learned from successive bleak winters how to muddle through with batteries, generators, blankets, and candles.

— Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 6 Oct. 2026
Opening in 2023, French Custard has now made it through a few KC winters, and Wood said people still show up for their special pint drops.

— Katelyn Umholtz, Kansas City Star, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of winters

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Other incentives contemplated include a special 1% sales tax district in the project area and sales tax breaks on construction materials, city documents show.

— Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 6 Oct. 2026
This is encouraging — trustworthy system should be able to pump the breaks and realize when data inputs are too unreliable to make accurate estimations.

— Euan Ashley, STAT, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of breaks

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Fast-swap batteries can also get the robot back to work without lengthy interruptions.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2026
The five original Nobel Prizes were created under the terms of Swedish inventor and industrialist Alfred Nobel’s will and have been awarded since 1901, with only limited interruptions, chiefly during World War I and World War II.

— Reuters, NBC news, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of interruptions

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