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Stephen Crane

I looked here;

I looked there;

Nowhere could I see my love.

And--this time--

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adverb

In an accidental manner; by chance, unexpectedly.

He discovered penicillin largely accidentally.

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interrupt

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/ˌɪntəˈɹʌpt/Used In Literature ↓

An event that causes a computer or other device to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition.

In a Sentence

The interrupt caused the packet handler routine to run.

Origin

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Common Phrases

. interruptrequest interruptservice interrupt
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Poetry examples for interrupt

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.