interruption
Example Sentences
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“Keep your interruptions to a minimum,” he says.
From Literature
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"For almost 96 hours straight - without interruption, without sleep, without even closing our eyes for a moment - we were operating. We were crying and operating. Nobody complained."
From BBC
A review published Monday found that of 82 CDC databases previously updated at least once a month, 38 had unexplained interruptions, with most of those pauses lasting six months or longer.
From Los Angeles Times
"When you are building a project of this size, you also need to be very reassured of the supply chain. We cannot have a disruption or interruption in that particular process."
From Barron's
He lacks a strategy for husbanding his domestic political capital, without which he will be remembered mainly as an interruption.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.