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Recent Examples of interrupt
The selloff on Friday appeared to interrupt resilient performance of the stock market going back months.
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Max Zahn, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2025
Four years ago, she was forced to interrupt her education at Herat University in Afghanistan when the Taliban came to power and banned schooling for women.
—Monika Evstatieva, NPR, 29 July 2025
During the Nashville stop of the group's latest world tour, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin interrupted the band's usual set list to pay tribute to Ozzy Osbourne, the rock legend who died Tuesday, July 22, at 76.
—Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 23 July 2025
Iris and Isaac’s idyll is interrupted by the enemy of all great budding romances: the truth.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 23 July 2025
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Max Zahn, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2025
Four years ago, she was forced to interrupt her education at Herat University in Afghanistan when the Taliban came to power and banned schooling for women.
—Monika Evstatieva, NPR, 29 July 2025
During the Nashville stop of the group's latest world tour, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin interrupted the band's usual set list to pay tribute to Ozzy Osbourne, the rock legend who died Tuesday, July 22, at 76.
—Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 23 July 2025
Iris and Isaac’s idyll is interrupted by the enemy of all great budding romances: the truth.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 23 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for interrupt
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But the divided three-judge panel in the nation’s capital found that Boasberg had exceeded his authority and intruded on the executive branch’s foreign affairs powers.—
Lindsay Whitehurst,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Aug. 2025
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The melt aggregates at depth in networks to form the source magma and intrudes upwards into shallow depths.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
16 July 2025
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If a body is here, whoever buried it didn’t bother digging deep, because there’s no fear of getting caught.—
Jesse Hyde,
Rolling Stone,
7 Aug. 2025
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The article includes a fancy-looking formula central to the algorithm, but the formula is nearly impossible to decipher since the authors didn’t bother to explain half the symbols in it.—
Noah Giansiracusa,
Time,
7 Aug. 2025
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And one area that has long stood as a pathway of opportunity for Black professionals, particularly Black women—the federal government—accounted for 12,000 jobs cut in a single month.—
Doug Melville,
Forbes.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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The bill President Trump signed last month, cuts $187 billion from SNAP — the biggest cut in the program’s history — and expands work requirements for SNAP beneficiaries.—
Francine Knowles,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Aug. 2025
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The aquarium added that the giant Pacific octopus can lift up to 700 pounds.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
People.com,
2 Aug. 2025
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On average last year, the economy added 168,000 jobs a month.—
Josh Boak,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Aug. 2025
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Other ads feature images of Harris and VP candidate Tim Walz interposed with post-apocalyptic scenes, and pictures of Walz and President Biden mashed up with images of prescription drugs spilling out of bottles.—
Emily Baker-White,
Forbes,
31 Oct. 2024
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Such a note, seemingly interposed at random, echoes Whitman and DeFeo.—
David L. Ulin,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Sep. 2023
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In June, a Macomb County Sheriff's evidence technician testified that the men's Durango was traveling at 24 mph at five seconds before impact and the vehicle turned early before the break in the double yellow line, which would have been a civil infraction.—
Christina Hall,
Freep.com,
31 July 2025
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Campbell hopes to join that playoff push again after his strong surge out of the All-Star break in Triple-A.—
Tim Crowley,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 July 2025
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“Interrupt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/interrupt. Accessed 14 Aug. 2025.
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