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Recent Examples of interrupt
The two candidates frequently interrupted each other, talking over each other’s remarks.
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Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2026
Leave the Leaves Many pollinators overwinter in old leaf litter and making garden beds too tidy too soon can interrupt their life cycle and remove hibernation and nesting spots.
—Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 5 May 2026
One of the few moments where the contenders didn’t interrupt each other or throw out attack lines came when they were asked about their plans to save Hollywood, as the industry grapples with a production flight to other states and countries.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 5 May 2026
Uranus in your 10th House of Career can interrupt with outside demands or changes that require quick attention.
—Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 3 May 2026
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Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2026
Leave the Leaves Many pollinators overwinter in old leaf litter and making garden beds too tidy too soon can interrupt their life cycle and remove hibernation and nesting spots.
—Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 5 May 2026
One of the few moments where the contenders didn’t interrupt each other or throw out attack lines came when they were asked about their plans to save Hollywood, as the industry grapples with a production flight to other states and countries.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 5 May 2026
Uranus in your 10th House of Career can interrupt with outside demands or changes that require quick attention.
—Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 3 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for interrupt
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That’s no different from foreign bots intruding into our elections.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
1 May 2026
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Critics say the warrants intrude on Americans' reasonable expectation of privacy by compelling service providers to turn over broad swaths of user location history and time stamps within a specified area over a specified timeframe.—
Devin Dwyer,
ABC News,
27 Apr. 2026
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There were other stories that bothered him more, like a post by a writer who recounted a chaste one-night stand with Tea Party activist and Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell that described her pubic hair.—
Frank DiGiacomo,
HollywoodReporter,
8 May 2026
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However, in the wild, the algae are the ocean’s introverts, and only glow when they are bothered, like jolted by a crashing wave or the hull of a passing boat.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
7 May 2026
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Retirement advocates see any cap or cut in Social Security benefits as a slippery slope.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
4 May 2026
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To temper those cuts in California, other groups proposed a new tax on billionaires that appears poised to qualify for the November ballot.—
Taryn Luna,
Los Angeles Times,
3 May 2026
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Junior Brittney Friedman, a Towson commit, added three goals and two assists while senior Lily Svirsky (Columbia University signee) recorded two goals.—
Alex Kushel,
Sun Sentinel,
3 May 2026
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Tyrese Maxey added 30 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists.—
Kyle Hightower,
Chicago Tribune,
3 May 2026
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Objects interposed between subjects and the camera hint at the quest for clarity through the intervening years.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
12 Apr. 2026
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The Trump Administration saw Amodei as arrogant and intractable, and would not abide a private company, regardless of how good its product might be, interposing itself in the chain of military command.—
Harry Booth,
Time,
11 Mar. 2026
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That makes sense; conference championship games serve little purpose in the modern college football landscape, and the traditional break in December had mostly existed for academic reasons.—
Ian Miller OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
7 May 2026
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When news broke in late April that Netflix was in advanced negotiations to snap up the historic Radford Studio Center in Studio City, talk in Hollywood quickly turned to the potential domino effect that the buy could have.—
Erik Hayden,
HollywoodReporter,
7 May 2026
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“Interrupt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/interrupt. Accessed 10 May. 2026.
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