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

It also employs credible messengers on the streets and violence interrupters in a D.C. hospital who work directly with shooting victims to mediate conflicts.

From Washington Post • Dec. 30, 2022

Lastly we have the electrolytic interrupters, the first of which was introduced by Dr. Wehnelt, of Charlottenburg, in the year 1899, and modified by subsequent inventors.

From Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy by Fleming, John Ambrose