interrupter
Example Sentences
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“We just got the dams removed on the Klamath, and now you want to put another destructive life cycle interrupter in our ocean.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
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
“If all the violence interrupter is doing is canvassing the neighborhood three times a week, that’s not going to be enough. There needs to be more of a person-specific strategy,” Mr. Muhammad told The Times.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 31, 2023
“We have to do something. Doing nothing, we see, isn’t working,” said Hardy, a violence interrupter.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 6, 2022
The mercury interrupter has, however, the advantage that the contact time during which the circuit is kept closed may be made longer than is the case with the hammer break.
From Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy by John Ambrose Fleming
