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interruptions

noun

plural of interruption
1
as in intervals
a break in continuity an interruption in cable service during the lightning storm

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2
as in pauses
a momentary halt in an activity a brief interruption in the discussion while we all got coffee

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Recent Examples of interruptions Further supply interruptions could push oil prices to $150 or even $200 a barrel. — Richard Haass, Foreign Affairs, 23 Sep. 2026 Practitioners describe them as brief interruptions in familiar patterns. — Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 22 Sep. 2026 Yet the founder was still working long hours and fielding constant interruptions. — Adi Klevit, Forbes.com, 22 Sep. 2026 Mercury opposes hazy Neptune, making expectations unclear and interruptions harder to manage. — Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 12 Sep. 2026 Additionally, customers who experience more than six electric service interruptions of at least five minutes in 12 months will receive an outage credit. — Arpan Lobo, Freep.com, 11 Sep. 2026 Previous major El Niños have resulted in significant interruptions to the canal’s operations. — Steven Paton, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2026 After several minutes of interruptions, Leroy Robinson, chair of the committee, told deputies to remove anyone who interrupted Terry during her speech. — Ryan Murphy, IndyStar, 10 Sep. 2026 The Family Plan targets banners, pop-ups, video ads, and other browsing interruptions. — Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 5 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for interruptions
  1. intervals
  2. pauses
  3. hiatuses
  4. lulls
  5. gaps
Noun
  • If vigorous exercise is new to you, build up gradually before adding hard intervals.
    — Jakob Roze, HEALTH, 23 Sep. 2026
  • This work later proved that prime numbers, while randomly scattered in small sections of the number line, appear to be regularly arranged over sufficiently large intervals.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of intervals
Noun
  • Lynne Goldberg, meditation teacher and co-founder of the Breethe meditation app, told Real Simple that these pauses do the heavy lifting.
    — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Some deepfakes still have telltale flaws such as unnatural facial movements, lip-sync glitches, robotic speech or awkward pauses — but the technology is rapidly improving, a spokesperson for the organization said.
    — Emily Elconin for CNN, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of pauses
Noun
  • Manon Bannerman and Sophia Laforteza are taking separate hiatuses from Katseye; while Bannerman’s status in the group remains unknown, Laforteza’s mental-health break will continue until she’s reassessed in September.
    — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Haircut 100, on the other hand, took some long hiatuses as a band.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of hiatuses
Noun
  • There are no lulls in the storytelling and all the actors are wonderful and hungry and bring the heat.
    — Ronda Racha Penrice, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Dull spells and lulls will crop up, building like waves, peaking, crashing, then dissipating.
    — Carlos Valladares, ARTnews.com, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of lulls
Noun
  • This is the language the show has used thus far, in that Hal often comes to conclusions and fills in the gaps for us after the fact.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Live Healthy Chicago could serve as a national model for closing life-expectancy gaps by addressing a chronic disease that considers the humanity needed to connect.
    — Garth Walker, Chicago Tribune, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of gaps

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“Interruptions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/interruptions. Accessed 30 Sep. 2026.

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