interrupter
Example Sentences
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And as we’re questioning our long-held beliefs about “sink or swim” individualism and intellectual elitism, this is also an interrupter.
From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2026
He now is 48 and works to pacify street beefs before they turn deadly as a violence interrupter.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 20, 2022
Towers, who works as a violence interrupter, said he and his colleagues face significant challenges in building trust with these communities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2022
And it has become a tiresome sentence interrupter: “I think, like, I might have to, like, leave early.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 14, 2022
The interrupter must be Harry Wilbur; nobody else approached door-knockers in so athletic a spirit.
From The Open Question a tale of two temperaments by Elizabeth Robins