interrupter

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He now is 48 and works to pacify street beefs before they turn deadly as a violence interrupter.

From Washington Times • Oct. 20, 2022

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

“We have to do something. Doing nothing, we see, isn’t working,” said Hardy, a violence interrupter.

From Washington Post • Sep. 6, 2022

“Email has become the biggest and worst interrupter the universe has ever experienced,” says Egan, a workplace productivity coach and author of “Inbox Detox and the Habit of E-mail Excellence.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 16, 2021

In this interrupter some form of a continuously-rotating electromotor is employed to make and break a mercury or other liquid contact.

From Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy by Fleming, John Ambrose