interrupters

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Scott strengthened an existing program that deploys violence interrupters in some of Baltimore’s most dangerous neighborhoods.

From Seattle Times • May 13, 2024

Those characteristics include the same number of exons, which encode the protein, and phases of introns, which act as interrupters to stop or start splicing of the RNA molecules transcribed from the gene.

From Science Daily • Jan. 30, 2024

Tyrone Parker, executive director of the nonprofit Alliance of Concerned Men, said the District’s ecosystem of violence interrupters and other support programs aren’t collaborating with each other to squash the blood feuds.

From Washington Times • Sep. 20, 2023

The city began making significant investments in violence interrupters five years ago, and programs run by D.C. and the independently elected attorney general have expanded.

From Washington Post • Dec. 31, 2022

Impatient and derisive exclamations were hurled at him; men sitting near M'Ginnis shouted back at the interrupters.

From The Black Opal by Prichard, Katharine Susannah