as in intruded
to cause a disruption in a conversation or discussion
it's rude to interrupt when someone is making an important point
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Recent Examples of interrupted
Randy Myers, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2025
Pet Peeves: Not feeling heard or being talked over/interrupted.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Hannah Allam, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025
The case is interrupted as Lorraine is heavily pregnant with Judy and is induced into giving birth after a terrifying vision.
—Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
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Verb
Howard’s version of paradise interrupted does suffer from random mood changes and is indeed the very essence over the top.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2025
Pet Peeves: Not feeling heard or being talked over/interrupted.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Adjective
Another of Soliman’s attorneys interrupted when the immigration officer said the Brotherhood had been a Tier III group since 2012.
—Hannah Allam, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025
The case is interrupted as Lorraine is heavily pregnant with Judy and is induced into giving birth after a terrifying vision.
—Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for interrupted
Verb
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Their solitude is suddenly intruded upon by fellow German family, Margret and Heinz Wittmer (Sweeney and Brühl), who are inspired by the doctor’s writing.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
24 Aug. 2025
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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.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
9 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Earthquakes' sudden, rapid shaking can cause fires, tsunamis, landslides or avalanches.—
CA Earthquake Bot,
Sacbee.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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And then all of a sudden, the pick.—
Doug Kyed,
Boston Herald,
13 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Bruno commented that the dance was cheeky and uplifting with the spirit of the cha cha , but added that the body wasn’t there.—
Monica Mercuri,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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In Middlesex League action, Kaylee Master recorded a hat trick, Sophia Setouhi added a pair and Gianna Venezia scored her first varsity goal as Watertown (5-0) blanked Woburn, 7-0, for its 102nd straight field hockey win.—
Tom Mulherin,
Boston Herald,
17 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The result is less a rite of passage than a series of disconnected tableaux, dazzling in flashes but never adding up to anything deeper.—
David Hochman,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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Muller seems disconnected from everyone else here, but then that was what Muller was all about.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
14 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The Bengals also worked out former Cleveland Browns signal-caller Dorian Thompson-Robinson, who was traded to the Philadelphia Eagles this offseason but was among the team's cuts in August.—
Michael Gallagher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
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In 2024, the Federal Reserve cut short-term interest rates three times — a half-point cut last September, a quarter point cut in November, and a quarter-point cut in December.—
Susan Tompor,
Freep.com,
15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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There’s some idle speculation in the films about where the Xenomorphs sit on the evolutionary ladder, and nearly every Alien story at some point deals with the question of whether synthetic creations care about their makers.—
Noel Murray,
Vulture,
10 Sep. 2025
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The display can smartly scale down to 1Hz when idle and now comes with a new anti-reflective coating.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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In my experience, redeeming a broken industry requires regaining consumer trust by delivering empathy, transparency, and a process that works for clients, especially in a space that has historically worked against the interests of consumers.—
Brandon Aversano,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Across the eastern Baltic states (an area pertaining to modern-day Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania), there are even more examples of broken tools in Stone Age burials.—
Sarah Durn,
Popular Science,
11 Sep. 2025
Verb
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No one has bothered to figure out the degree to which that alters the scaling laws of AI models until now.—
Ashley Belanger,
ArsTechnica,
15 Sep. 2025
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The two were hardly bothered, though.—
Hannah Jackson,
Vogue,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Interrupted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/interrupted. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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