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

He championed a law that created a multimillion-dollar violence interrupter program as a supplement to traditional policing and another that funded “baby bonds” that low-income children can cash in once they become adults.

From Washington Post • Nov. 3, 2022

He now is 48 and works to pacify street beefs before they turn deadly as a violence interrupter.

From Washington Times • Oct. 20, 2022

He fell to muttering, and eyeing the last interrupter malevolently, sat down again.

From Grit Lawless by Young, F.E. Mills