fallow period

noun

: a period in which a writer does no writing

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The label kicks off a new phase of Hertz’s career, putting the end to a lengthy fallow period. Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 25 Oct. 2024 What looked to facility owners in Kentucky like an irresistible opportunity to tap into a new line of business in an otherwise fallow period has turned into a nightmare. Joel Khalili, WIRED, 21 Oct. 2024 This fallow period came during his mid-thirties, the age when most pro cyclists ride off into the sunset. Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 3 July 2024 The post-Trump era has been a fallow period for protest music, though the current revival of campus activism could usher in an adjacent revival for the genre. Aja Romano, Vox, 10 May 2024 Following the Trump interview, Fallon had a creatively fallow period during the Republican's presidency when the host just could not rise to the cultural moment as his more political counterparts, CBS' Stephen Colbert, NBCs Seth Meyers and ABC's Jimmy Kimmel, did. Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 14 May 2024 The index went 512 trading days without a new record, the longest stretch since a fallow period of 1,375-sessions that ended in March 2013. Jill Schlesinger, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024 Levine was an executive Disney from 1986 to 1998, rising to the rank of Vice President of Co-Op Advertising at the time when the studio began stepping up its movie output under CEO Michael Eisner after a particularly fallow period in the early 1980s. Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 2 Jan. 2024 The latter part of December, always a fallow period for new releases, is a time for resting your ears, checking out a bit of Christmas music, maybe catching up on a reissued boxed set or two. Mark Richardson, WSJ, 1 Jan. 2024

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“Fallow period.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fallow%20period. Accessed 10 Nov. 2024.

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