interrupt
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But "we don't have the strength necessary to go and interrupt them", he insisted.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
“If someone is rambling we will often interrupt and say what is the goal?” she says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
To borrow the nostrum attributed to Napoleon, the Chinese president is smart enough not to interrupt an opponent while he’s making a mistake.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
Outside, the more than 1-acre property offers plenty of space and privacy, with no rear neighbors to interrupt its secluded feel.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
Doesn’t try to interrupt the important observations or thinking time that the woods offer.
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
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She talks almost exclusively about herself, interrupts constantly and has an opinion about everyone, often an unflattering one.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
Transparency interrupts the vicious cycle where people think AI use is shameful, so they hide it; that secrecy makes everyone suspicious of everyone else, which only makes AI use seem even more shameful.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Their crunch interrupts the softness of the turkey, cheese and sauces; their salt seasons the sandwich; and their pucker sharpens the lemon mayo and smoky-sweet romesco.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
Fewer fires, it said, "interrupts a sequence of years of fire expansion and returns the country to a historically lower level of burned area."
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
Mop interrupts us and takes the book out of my hand.
From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya
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Justice Scalia interrupted him and said that while the Privileges or Immunities argument was “the darling of the professoriate,” it was contrary to a century of case law.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
So now the talk has shifted to what happens if Michaels’ run is interrupted because, you know, something happens to him?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
He told me his Bitcoin origin story, which was occasionally interrupted by young boys asking him for an autograph.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026
Their broader goal was to determine whether those processes might be interrupted or reduced.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
She didn’t like to be interrupted when she was reading, even when I had to give her some medication.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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The team then tested whether interrupting one of those inflammatory signals could reverse the problem.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
Scientists say human behavior, including the unchecked burning of fossil fuels, is warming the global climate and interrupting weather patterns.
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
Wednesday’s debate was acrimonious almost from the beginning, with the two interrupting each other throughout the night.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Pharrell’s ad-libs and inserts interrupting the groove at perfect intervals to wake up the dancefloor.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
Already it’s like I’m interrupting something, like I don’t belong here.
From "A Soft Place to Land" by Janae Marks
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