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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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Designed in the nineteen-sixties to bring high-quality brewing to Scandinavian homes, the red, orange, yellow, and green machines are surely intended as an antidote to the monochromatic, dark Nordic winters.

— Nicholas Blechman, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2026
And continuing a pattern seen in previous years, Russian drones and missiles are already hitting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, but harder and earlier than in other winters, analysts say.

— Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 9 Nov. 2026

Definition of winters

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Unions say rising living costs, stagnant pay and looming layoffs are intensifying public anger and putting fresh pressure on President Emmanuel Macron’s government.

— Sylvie Corbet, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2026
The moves continue a long and far-reaching series of layoffs since CEO Robert Kyncl officially took the helm in January of 2023.

— Jem Aswad, Variety, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of layoffs

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Wild Horse Nine lives or dies by the Mutt & Jeff chemistry of its leads, both of whom keep the proceedings propped up in between plot points and temporary pacing lulls.

— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2026
There are no lulls in the storytelling and all the actors are wonderful and hungry and bring the heat.

— Ronda Racha Penrice, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of lulls

Noun

For existing light water reactors, LEU+ means plants can run much longer between refueling shutdowns, cutting maintenance costs and keeping reliable zero-carbon electricity flowing to the grid with fewer interruptions.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2026
The squeeze gesture is very useful for quickly bringing up the tool menu and switching between them, integrating them into your workflow without any interruptions.

— George Yang, PC Magazine, 30 Oct. 2026

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