How to Use interrupter in a Sentence
interrupter
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Look the interrupter in the eye, smile and finish your thought.
—Annie Lane, cleveland, 7 Dec. 2022
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For sure, this woman is an interrupter, and her husband is calling her on it.
—Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 19 May 2021
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Pyne was an expert interrupter, but this caller barely paused for breath.
—Kevin Cook, Smithsonian, 29 June 2017
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Pyne was an expert interrupter, but this caller barely paused for breath.
—Kevin Cook, Smithsonian, 23 May 2017
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The interrupter, a male, could not be understood from initial video.
—Barack Obama, Fox News, 29 Oct. 2022
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Yes, this sort of rudeness toward an old friend would be a friendship-interrupter, if not a friendship-ender.
—Amy Dickinson, The Denver Post, 12 Nov. 2019
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What will happen to the interrupters once federal funding ends?
—Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Oct. 2024
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Older homes often do not have safety devices like ground fault circuit interrupters.
—Ana Teresa Solá, CNBC, 11 July 2024
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What kind of headway have violence interrupters made with some of the people involved in this conflict?
—Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 31 May 2023
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The squad of violence interrupters deters or stops multiple fights a week in the parking lots and bus stops across from the school.
—Jordan Heller, cleveland, 3 Nov. 2019
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Some have worked as violence interrupters, or to raise awareness about mental health and wellness through their products and services.
—Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 20 June 2023
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The heavy-duty blower comes with a fault interrupter outlet to prevent shocks and electrical shortages.
—Heather Balogh Rochfort, Parents, 18 May 2024
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Safe Streets violence interrupters were present at the block party but left before the shootings occurred.
—Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun, 30 Aug. 2023
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In my experience, the interrupter will pause and look toward you, which is your opportunity to chime back in.
—Jessica Chen, CNBC, 15 May 2026
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In the past, lack of clear guidance has led to problems like confrontations between police and violence interrupters.
—Daniela Gilbert, New York Daily News, 14 Jan. 2026
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Rinehart said community violence interrupters have been doing the work for decades.
—Joseph States, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2026
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Barksdale was shot and killed three years ago, at age 46 -- the first of three Safe Streets violence interrupters murdered in the span of a year.
—Byron Pitts, ABC News, 2 Feb. 2024
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Because in the eyes of a powerful legal system that is either unwilling or afraid to upset the status quo, Hill was but a brief interrupter.
—Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 1 July 2026
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Use a ground fault circuit interrupter (GFCI), available from hardware stores.
—Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Jan. 2026
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The mayor’s latest budget pumps millions into crime mitigation programs and more than doubles the size of the violence interrupter unit.
—Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2021
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Their motor, cord, and ground-fault circuit interrupter (GFCI) can get extremely hot.
—Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2023
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The neighborhoods without the interrupters were 12% less likely to use violence during the same period.
—Zolan Kanno-Youngs, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2017
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Use a ground-fault circuit interrupter (GFCI) outlet for extra safety.
—Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Dec. 2024
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Part of the future plan is to establish six different sites across high-crime neighborhoods that will employ 10-person teams of violence interrupters.
—Phillip M. Bailey, The Courier-Journal, 31 May 2018
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The boy’s mother – a violence interrupter – told FOX 5 that he’d been caught in the middle of a neighborhood dispute.
—Fox News, 10 July 2020
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So long as these interrupters abide by Twitter's TOS, their disagreeable posts and arguments break no apparent site rules.
—Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 2 Mar. 2018
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His office also hires violence interrupter programs like Dallas Cred, investing about $1 million a year in the work.
—Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 May 2024
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Simply plug a pool vacuum into a ground fault circuit interrupter (GFCI) outlet and place it in the water.
—Jamie Weissman, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Apr. 2023
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In 2019, a man learning to be a violence interrupter, Clarence Venable, was shot and killed after a training session.
—Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2020
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The program uses outreach workers and violence interrupters to de-escalate violent conflict.
—Jt Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 8 June 2026
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