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

We have funded violence interrupters and social workers for 30 years.

From Washington Post • Jan. 31, 2023

Without intelligent listeners, the best talker is at sea; and any good conversationalist is defeated when he is the only member of a crowd of interrupters who scream each other down.

From Conversation What to Say and How to Say it by Conklin, Mary Greer