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Others deliberately rely on lower-cost, interruptible supply because disruptions are rare and they can tolerate occasional supply interruptions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

But it is true that the disease is interruptible.

From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2016

I don’t recall any power outages because of the interruptible rate, most likely because I was not on campus at the time. 

From Forbes • Jun. 28, 2011

Mr. Horvitz has given the avatar rules for the kinds of meetings that are more and less interruptible.

From New York Times • Jun. 25, 2010

Many great rivers, in fact, flow with an almost interruptible declivity.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 562, Saturday, August 18, 1832. by Various