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Use "outages" in a sentence
"For longer-term outages, there's a bag of charcoal on the back porch, for cooking, and plenty of clothing adequate for Southern California winter chill."
"So unless you are completely off the grid, this does not good in outages either."
"Long term outages mean you'll need to charge the cell phones."