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

Eugene Smith, a father of five, was also a violence interrupter in Southeast Washington and had a “teddy bear”-like personality, according to friends at the vigil.

From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2023

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

From Washington Times • Oct. 20, 2022

If there is no inductance in the circuit, the interrupter stage never sets in at all, but the first stage passes directly into the third stage.

From Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy by Fleming, John Ambrose