interrupter

Example Sentences

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“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

One of those killed was DaShawn McGrier, a Safe Streets violence interrupter, according to the Living Classrooms Foundation, a nonprofit that operates two Safe Streets sites.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 20, 2022

And it has become a tiresome sentence interrupter: “I think, like, I might have to, like, leave early.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 14, 2022

In the case of larger coils, we have to employ some form of interrupter in which mercury or a conducting liquid forms one of the contact surfaces.

From Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy by Fleming, John Ambrose