interrupter
Americannoun
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a person or thing that interrupts.
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Electricity. a device for interrupting or periodically opening and closing a circuit, as in a doorbell.
noun
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a person or thing that interrupts
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an electromechanical device for opening and closing an electric circuit
Etymology
Origin of interrupter
Example Sentences
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And as we’re questioning our long-held beliefs about “sink or swim” individualism and intellectual elitism, this is also an interrupter.
From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2026
“If all the violence interrupter is doing is canvassing the neighborhood three times a week, that’s not going to be enough. There needs to be more of a person-specific strategy,” Mr. Muhammad told The Times.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 31, 2023
Towers, who works as a violence interrupter, said he and his colleagues face significant challenges in building trust with these communities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2022
Three people with knowledge of the incident said one of the surviving victims from the O Street shooting is a violence interrupter who works as part of the attorney general’s office’s Cure the Streets program.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 25, 2022
William sought to ignore the interruption and the interrupter, and addressed himself exclusively to his father.
From Imprudence by Young, F.E. Mills
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