Usage examples (35)

• "A brownout is a service reduction, plain and simple," Bill Gault, president of Local 22, said Tuesday.
• The helicopters landing in what are called brownout conditions, meaning the dust on the desert floor rises up and engulfs the helicopter.
• A so-called brownout ( "brownout may have had role in tot's death/Closest paramedics were on another call," July 22).
• Pilots continue to complain of flying through what they call "brownout," great clouds of desert dust when they take off and land.