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also interruptor
as in heckler
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Recent Examples of interrupter
There were Safe Streets workers from the Brooklyn location at the block party before the gunfire erupted, and it was revealed those violence interrupters completed several mediations during the day.
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Mikenzie Frost, Baltimore Sun, 13 Nov. 2024
Now in its 17th year, Safe Streets operates in 10 locations, employing violence interrupters to detect brewing conflicts and act as mediators to prevent gunfire.
—Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 14 Nov. 2024
Research suggests violence interrupters and deterrence programs can help reduce homicides, nonfatal shootings and violent crime in cities, according to the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions.
—N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2024
What will happen to the interrupters once federal funding ends?
—Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Oct. 2024
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Mikenzie Frost, Baltimore Sun, 13 Nov. 2024
Now in its 17th year, Safe Streets operates in 10 locations, employing violence interrupters to detect brewing conflicts and act as mediators to prevent gunfire.
—Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 14 Nov. 2024
Research suggests violence interrupters and deterrence programs can help reduce homicides, nonfatal shootings and violent crime in cities, according to the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions.
—N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2024
What will happen to the interrupters once federal funding ends?
—Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for interrupter
Noun
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The worst can turn a whole auditorium into hecklers, united in their disdain.—
A.A. Dowd,
Vulture,
30 July 2024
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Other members of the crowd started booing and then drowned out the heckler with applause before Zverev began his post-match speech.—
Ben Church,
CNN,
27 Jan. 2025
Noun
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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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Rockstar then packed the world with everything from skydiving and harrier jets to trucking — all within a 6×6 kilometer map, a step up from the 4×4 kilometers for GTA III and Vice City.—
Ade Adeniji,
Rolling Stone,
27 Oct. 2024
Noun
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According to Stanford historian Walter Scheidel, over the past 2,000 years, only four forces have reversed growing economic inequality: mass-mobilization warfare, transformative revolutions, state collapse, and catastrophic plagues.—
The Sorenson Impact Institute,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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The progress is undone; however, when two kids' excursion into an infected zone sets events in motion, the zombie plague spread throughout the community.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
27 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Both conditions also involve symptoms outside the intestines, such as headaches or brain fog.5 Only celiac disease involves symptoms related to malnutrition, which occurs because the small intestine is damaged.—
Sarah Bence,
Health,
28 Feb. 2025
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Less frequent side effects can include chest discomfort, weakness, headache, rhinitis, hypoglycemia and vitamin B12 deficiency (with long-term metformin use).—
Leslie Baumann,
Miami Herald,
27 Feb. 2025
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“Interrupter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/interrupter. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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