BROWNOUT Synonyms: 56 Similar and Opposite Words

brownout

noun

Definition of brownout

as in blackout

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Recent Examples of brownout Yet, concerns about the impacts of data centers on the electrical grid and local resources, leading to possible blackouts or brownouts, have started to cause community pushback. — Sheila Rohra, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 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 See All Example Sentences for brownout

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Noun

Outside the capital, the blackouts may last 48 hours or more before the power returns for another couple of hours.

— Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 31 Aug. 2026
The package skips any form of standard or optional kitchen unit but does include a full set of blackout blinds and ventilation grilles for the front windows meant to increase airflow and cut out condensation when sleeping inside.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 30 Aug. 2026

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Noun

Shortly before midnight, the crew beat out a fifty-acre fire that was smoldering delicately through lush green tundra.

— M. R. O’Connor, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
Just before midnight on the 5400 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue, police sources said a pair of unknown shooters dressed in all black and ski masks shot at the gathering from across the street, and that someone from the crowd returned fire.

— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026