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

From Washington Times • Oct. 20, 2022

“We have to do something. Doing nothing, we see, isn’t working,” said Hardy, a violence interrupter.

From Washington Post • Sep. 6, 2022

The mercury interrupter may be worked by a separate electromagnet or by the magnetism of the core of the induction coil.

From Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy by Fleming, John Ambrose