interrupt
Example Sentences
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When labor-management disputes interrupt baseball, many fans undoubtedly feel like they are victims of a squabble between “millionaires and billionaires.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026
Gulls managed to interrupt the BBC's interview with the Bank of England's chief cashier, Victoria Cleland, whose signature appears on its banknotes.
From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026
When markets price crude oil, they must account for the risk that conflict, sabotage and terrorism will interrupt these flows.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
Many of them display puzzling fluctuations in brightness, brief increases in light that interrupt the expected smooth curve and hint that complex processes are unfolding within the expanding debris.
From Science Daily • Mar. 11, 2026
“I can’t interrupt the song of the loom,” she said.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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