INTERMITTED Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

intermitted

verb

past tense of intermit

as in interrupted

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Things take an even bigger turn when the trio is interrupted by the arrival of an ambulance to rush Walter patriarch George to the hospital amid a health scare.

— Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 15 July 2026
The jury in Leon County Circuit Court sat through three days of arguments and witness testimony this week that was consistently interrupted by chaos and controversy stemming from Basabe’s decision to represent himself without an attorney.

— Aaron Leibowitz, Miami Herald, 15 July 2026

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Los Angeles is one of dozens of American cities that have discontinued its use of Flock cameras in the last year.

— Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 15 July 2026
In 2018, the distillery discontinued that 6-year-old bourbon and replaced it with a 7-year-old version with a higher price tag and new packaging.

— Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 14 July 2026

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By some architectural wizardry of concrete and glass the pictures inside stand to attention, as if they, too, are suspended in time and space—a collection that faces in one direction, in orderly fashion, like the Terracotta Army.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 July 2026
The Ministry of Education suspended in-person classes in the departments of San Marcos, Quetzaltenango, Suchitepéquez and Retalhuleu, near the quake's epicenter.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 July 2026

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Moorby broke off the left wing and combined with his Hurricanes teammate, scrumhalf Cam Roigard to score two minutes after the resumption.

— ABC News, ABC News, 11 July 2026
The Italian shipwreck that killed 32 people Local media in Greece reported that a piece of engine broke off and smashed a window during the flight on Friday, causing the cabin to decompress and sucking one passenger partially out of the window.

— Renee Maltezou, USA Today, 10 July 2026

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Mohammed also said the Popular Mobilization Forces, or PMF, an umbrella organization integrated into Iraq's security forces, was never disbanded after ISIS's territorial defeat.

— Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 20 July 2026
Before it was released on Santana’s Shaman album and became a Billboard Hot 100 top 10 hit that went on to win a Grammy for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals, the song was one of many that Alexander wrote after New Radicals disbanded.

— Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 15 July 2026

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