interruptions

plural of interruption

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Recent Examples of interruptions The interruptions during the examination proved costly, as the NFL fined the Giants $200,000, Daboll $100,000, and Skattebo $15,000 for violating the league’s concussion protocol, the NFL and NFLPA announced in a joint statement Friday. Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2025 The routine — which sparked some friendly interruptions at the judges' table — also earned three 10s and one 9. Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Oct. 2025 Across Gaza, education has been displaced into makeshift tents or broken classrooms, where teachers try to piece together lessons between interruptions. Ghada Abdulfattah, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2025 As for closures and travel interruptions, Pirek said the only stoppages that will occur are some trains at Camp Pendleton. Washington Examiner Staff, The Washington Examiner, 16 Oct. 2025 Tense exchanges and frequent interruptions have marked the evening, as both candidates seek to land decisive blows ahead of Election Day. Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025 Without any further interruptions, the Port of Rotterdam Authority expects backlogs will not be fully cleared out until the end of October. Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 15 Oct. 2025 Those prizes were established in the will of Swedish dynamite inventor and businessman Alfred Nobel and have been handed out since 1901, with a few interruptions mostly due to the world wars. Simon Johnson, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025 Even small interruptions matter because of how heavily modern manufacturing depends on advanced chips. Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for interruptions
Noun
  • There will be intervals of clouds and sunshine with a couple of showers and breezy.
    Leah Olajide, Freep.com, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Reheat in the microwave on Medium in 30-second intervals.
    Ann Taylor Pittman, Southern Living, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Inspiration lives in the little pauses.
    Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Councilmembers Louie Rocha, Wilson, and Freitas believed that any changes to pauses should apply consistently to all boards and commissions, not just the oversight commission.
    Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Newcomers this year include Ming, Ressence, Leica, Studio Sarpaneva, Konstantin Chaykin, Fortis, Fears, Bianchet, Artya, and Artisans de Genève, along with two brands returning after long hiatuses, HYT and Zenith.
    Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 8 Oct. 2025
  • After several hiatuses, the buckets returned in 2016, 2022, and 2023.
    Ben Kelly, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • That led to a couple of scoring lulls, especially in the first half.
    Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 25 Oct. 2025
  • For instance, why did the offense experience so many extended lulls against opposing bullpens (even as, in another contradiction, its overall performance against bullpens was in line with 2024)?
    Will Sammon, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Funding cliff The children wasting away, day by day, don’t have time to wait for funding gaps to be filled.
    Rebecca Wright, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Jupiter was shaping Earth's fate before our planet even existed, carving gaps in the early solar system that kept its building blocks from plunging into the sun, a new study finds.
    Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 24 Oct. 2025

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“Interruptions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/interruptions. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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