When lightning struck the box, it blew a fuse, which caused two catastrophic problems: it cut off communication and froze the signal on the color green.

NEWYORKER: Boss Rail

The nonprofit organization reported that the quake cut off phone communication and electricity in parts of Sikkim and West Bengal provinces.

CNN: 18 dead in India, Nepal after magnitude-6.9 quake

Even the House of Commons was cut off from electronic communication with the outside world, as the network was shut down to prevent the bug spreading.

BBC: You are in: UK

He added that the initiative would target the remotest parts which are ordinarily cut off from conventional means of communication.

UNESCO: GENDER EQUALITY

He had cut himself off completely from modern communication with the world.

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The conclave is designed to take outside pressure off cardinals by sequestering them behind a wall of silence where communication with the outside world is essentially cut off, and much of the daily schedule is scripted.

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He became fanatically rigid, cut off from any ideas but his own, and from communication with the world.

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