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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 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 The off-season interruptions will take a toll, says the former producer. — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 2 Sep. 2026 Aguas de La Habana, the state utilities company in the capital, issues daily updates to clients on service interruptions caused by electricity cuts or burst pipes. — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 31 Aug. 2026 Continuous operation is particularly important for large facilities, where interruptions can significantly affect production economics and throughput. — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 30 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for interruptions
  1. intervals
  2. pauses
  3. hiatuses
  4. lulls
  5. gaps
Noun
  • 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
  • Tickets cost £33 (about $44) and are sold in 10-minute intervals, for a 40-minute visit, but the first batch are sold out.
    — Lauren Frayer, NPR, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of intervals
Noun
  • 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
  • If pauses were put in place, wouldn’t that cost your business quite a lot of money, and Anthropic’s business quite a lot of money, ahead of these critical moments in public-market debuts?
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 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
  • Dull spells and lulls will crop up, building like waves, peaking, crashing, then dissipating.
    — Carlos Valladares, ARTnews.com, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Share these transparently to maintain trust and momentum through the inevitable lulls.
    — Stewart McLaurin, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of lulls
Noun
  • Now those gaps were empty, glazed only by the view of leaf-greens and sky-blues.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026
  • MXene nanosheets fill the microscopic gaps between those fibers, locking them in place and preventing slippage under physical pressure.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of gaps

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“Interruptions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/interruptions. Accessed 23 Sep. 2026.

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