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Recent Examples of interrupter
On Call Her Daddy, Cohen called out Lisa Barlow from Real Housewives of Salt Lake City and Teresa Giudice from Real Housewives of New Jersey as frequent interrupters.
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Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
The 87-year-old change-making violence-interrupter — who spent 20 years as a Milwaukee County correctional officer and dedicated her life to the betterment of others — never hesitated to step into the middle of confrontation.
—Sophia Tiedge, jsonline.com, 11 Sep. 2025
The new department would expand violence interrupter programs in the city and mental health teams that respond to 911 calls, according to his 17-page public safety plan.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 8 Aug. 2025
Three years ago, the Urban League of the Carolinas launched the Alternatives to Violence team in the corridor to act as violence interrupters.
—Briah Lumpkins, Charlotte Observer, 8 July 2025
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Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
The 87-year-old change-making violence-interrupter — who spent 20 years as a Milwaukee County correctional officer and dedicated her life to the betterment of others — never hesitated to step into the middle of confrontation.
—Sophia Tiedge, jsonline.com, 11 Sep. 2025
The new department would expand violence interrupter programs in the city and mental health teams that respond to 911 calls, according to his 17-page public safety plan.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 8 Aug. 2025
Three years ago, the Urban League of the Carolinas launched the Alternatives to Violence team in the corridor to act as violence interrupters.
—Briah Lumpkins, Charlotte Observer, 8 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for interrupter
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Like telling the New York Giants which coach to hire, posing with a Nobel Peace Prize that was not his, threatening political enemies, flipping off a heckler during a tour of a Detroit automaker, seeking to deploy troops to Minneapolis and wanting to make Canada our 51st state.—
Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Jan. 2026
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The heckler was suspended from Ford Motor, though donations have poured in to support him online.—
Kathryn Palmer,
USA Today,
14 Jan. 2026
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Some belong to the family Accipitridae, which comprises hawks, eagles, kites and harriers.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
27 July 2025
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Sign up As omnivorous eaters, an unchecked population of stoats also poses a threat to mice, rabbits, hedgehogs and birds, including Orkney's population of curlews and hen harriers.—
Abby Wilson,
theweek,
1 Nov. 2024
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The Bible states that as a result, God unleashed 10 plagues against Egypt and its people.—
Seth Jacobson,
wickedlocal.com,
19 Feb. 2026
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Collins, a 9/11 truther and QAnon convert who sports a black MAGA hat and custom dental fangs, moved to rural Shawmut, Montana, in 2016 to build a bug-out — an off-grid fortress suitable for waiting out a plague or world war — and raise horses with his wife, Starla.—
Tessa Stuart,
Rolling Stone,
17 Feb. 2026
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Major industry groups including the American Petroleum Institute have not fought to kill the federal endangerment finding, because a patchwork of state laws could ultimately replace it — leading to legal headaches and a raft of nuisance lawsuits against them, experts said.—
Ella Nilsen,
CNN Money,
24 Feb. 2026
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Gone are the days of worrying that your vitamins or headache medication accidentally spilled all over the bottom of the bag; this style has two layers of defense.—
Lydia Mansel,
Travel + Leisure,
23 Feb. 2026
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“Interrupter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/interrupter. Accessed 28 Feb. 2026.
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