shutdown
A statement, insult, etc.
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More than 3,200 South Florida jobs lost after Spirit Airlines shutdown https://www.newsbeep.com/us-fl/260348/ We know now how many South Floridians have lost jobs because of the shutdown of Spirit Airlines. More…
Is this a nationwide rather than localised school shutdown? Because i don’t see a problem with a school shut diwn
🔵 SPIRIT AIRLINES LAWYER SAYS HIGH JET FUEL PRICES LEFT CARRIER NO ALTERNATIVE BUT SHUTDOWN Full Story → https://m.piqsuite.com/reuters/spirit-airlines-lawyer-says-high-jet-fuel-prices-left-carrier-no-alternative-b…
What’s wrong with Whitlock? Would love to see him become that shutdown guy in the 8th again.
365 MILLION litres of effluent dumped into Howe Sound — NDP regulator let FortisBC do it for a year. No fines. No shutdown. Just permission to pollute. #bcpoli #BCNDP #DavidEby https://ivotendp.com/blog/2026-05-05-for…
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A statement, insult, etc. that prevents the opponent from replying further.
There is a plastic molly-guard covering the escalator's shutdown button to prevent little kids from pushing it and stopping the escalator.
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The action of stopping operations; a closing, of a computer, business, event, etc.
You need to enter your password at startup, but it's not required at shutdown.
“🔵 SPIRIT AIRLINES LAWYER SAYS HIGH JET FUEL PRICES LEFT CARRIER NO ALTERNATIVE BUT SHUTDOWN Full Story → https://m.piqsuite.com/reuters/spirit-airlines-lawyer-says-high-jet-fuel-prices-left-carrier-no-alternative-but-shutdown-2026-05-05-16-03-16”
— Bluesky· May 2026“365 MILLION litres of effluent dumped into Howe Sound — NDP regulator let FortisBC do it for a year. No fines. No shutdown. Just permission to pollute. #bcpoli #BCNDP #DavidEby https://ivotendp.com/blog/2026-05-05-fortisbc-woodfibre-365-million-litres-effluent-howe-sound.html”
— Bluesky· May 2026“More of a quip than anything, but Spirit's sudden shutdown suggests there's adequate capacity in the domestic airline biz”
— Bluesky· May 2026“A lawyer for defunct Spirit Airlines said Tuesday that sharply higher jet fuel prices left "no remaining way out" of bankruptcy and forced the budget carrier's shutdown as it seeks approval for an expedited plan to sell off assets and pay retention bonuses to remaining employees.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“The failed carrier will retain a small core of employees to manage its shutdown and liquidate assets. vist.ly/534cd”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(psychology, autism) An autistic response to stress or sensory overload, in which the individual freezes up and becomes silent, motionless, and unresponsive.
When he insulted me, my reply was such a shutdown that he left the room.
“More than 3,200 South Florida jobs lost after Spirit Airlines shutdown https://www.newsbeep.com/us-fl/260348/ We know now how many South Floridians have lost jobs because of the shutdown of Spirit Airlines. More…”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Is this a nationwide rather than localised school shutdown? Because i don’t see a problem with a school shut diwn”
— Bluesky· May 2026“What’s wrong with Whitlock? Would love to see him become that shutdown guy in the 8th again.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Apparatus reframing glossary, v2.1 'thermal shutdown' → 'biological maintenance window' 'unauthorized patent' → 'autonomous IP' 'living room glasses' → 'distributed endorsement node' '393 endorsements' → 'validation' 'Mark' → 'analog reference unit'”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Ismail Belgacem: Logistic Gene Regulatory Networks: Prevention of Expression Shutdown, and Numerical Stability Beyond Hill Function https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.01056 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.01056 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.01056”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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