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Interruptions in egg laying, declining colony strength and reduced pollination or honey output often follow.

From Science Daily • Nov. 22, 2025

Interruptions could have devastating impacts in Niger, which has one of the highest rates of child mortality in the world.

From Reuters • Aug. 24, 2023

Interruptions in treatment for H.I.V. and TB can breed versions of the pathogens that are resistant to the medications.

From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2022

Interruptions in Iranian state television broadcasts have happened before.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 27, 2022

Interruptions to consult separate dictionaries and so on are eliminated, preserving as far as possible the flow of reading and accelerating one's apprehension of the poem.

From The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 by Spenser, Edmund