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Recent Examples of caesura
With National Socialism from 1933, however, a caesura occurred that is still unparalleled today.
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Uwe Westphal, Sun Sentinel, 16 July 2024
During the concert Friday night, the important silences between movements — caesuras central to the impact of the music — were consistently broken by applause.
—Luke Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2023
Nearly every line is interrupted with a caesura (a period, em dash, comma or question mark), mirroring a zigzagging mind.
—Mark Wunderlich Victoria Chang, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2022
However, with a likely yearslong caesura between Muti’s tenure and, well, whoever’s, why get ahead of ourselves?
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 9 Sep. 2022
Details like these are scattered throughout the first half of the novella, partly so Wallace can establish a generational caesura between Fogle and his father, the Reagan-campaign contributor.
—Jon Baskin, The New Yorker, 27 July 2022
There's a caesura, and then all the hands in the congregation go up.
—Michael Paterniti, GQ, 26 June 2018
Uwe Westphal, Sun Sentinel, 16 July 2024
During the concert Friday night, the important silences between movements — caesuras central to the impact of the music — were consistently broken by applause.
—Luke Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2023
Nearly every line is interrupted with a caesura (a period, em dash, comma or question mark), mirroring a zigzagging mind.
—Mark Wunderlich Victoria Chang, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2022
However, with a likely yearslong caesura between Muti’s tenure and, well, whoever’s, why get ahead of ourselves?
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 9 Sep. 2022
Details like these are scattered throughout the first half of the novella, partly so Wallace can establish a generational caesura between Fogle and his father, the Reagan-campaign contributor.
—Jon Baskin, The New Yorker, 27 July 2022
There's a caesura, and then all the hands in the congregation go up.
—Michael Paterniti, GQ, 26 June 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for caesura
Noun
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Square Lake looks suspiciously like a comma.—
Mark Glende,
Twin Cities,
3 Apr. 2026
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Basically, this means a long, wavy line of thunderstorms—which can be seen trailing down from the low-pressure area in a classic comma shape on weather maps.—
Andrea Thompson,
Scientific American,
16 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday Ukraine is ready to mirror any ceasefire steps, having earlier proposed to Russia a pause in attacks on each other’s energy infrastructure over the Orthodox Easter holiday.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
11 Apr. 2026
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Leon, in issuing the temporary pause, concluded that the preservationist group behind the legal challenge was likely to succeed because the president lacks the authority to build the ballroom without approval from Congress.—
Michael Kunzelman,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Apr. 2026
Noun
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One bizarre, nearly 7-minute interlude featured Susan Sarandon playing an older version of Carpenter, delivering a wistful monologue about what a future niece might think of her.—
Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
11 Apr. 2026
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Carpenter’s Girl Meets World co-star Fogelmanis suddenly appeared towards the end of Sarandon’s interlude, playing a tired waiter who was trying to clock out for an emergency.—
Lara Walsh,
InStyle,
11 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The interspace is enchanted mainly in its normalcy.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
17 June 2024
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Many of the bacteria at least partially survived, which helps to test one of the parameters for the theory of panspermia—that life on Earth originated somewhere else and was brought here on an asteroid or other interspace body.—
Caroline Delbert,
Popular Mechanics,
14 Sep. 2020
Noun
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Efforts are now underway to facilitate a second round of talks within this narrow window.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
13 Apr. 2026
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From a window, Jude looked down on a scrubby expanse where multiple apartment buildings were under construction.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Seismologists identified 459 earthquakes since 1990 that occurred beneath the Mohorovičić discontinuity.—
Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
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Advertisement Rather than a drastic discontinuity, Moltbook is best understood as the latest (and largest) in a line of experiments that tease out the limits of AI agents.—
Tharin Pillay,
Time,
3 Feb. 2026
Noun
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But scaling the effort has been difficult as the technology requires lots of computing power to achieve realism and avoid a lag in interactions with users.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
13 Apr. 2026
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Like some ghastly old lag, ransacking the plans of a bank vault!—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Top 10 With records through Wednesday and previous rankings in parentheses.—
Jeff Vorva,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Apr. 2026
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And that, Sachin explained, was the last Sachin had seen of Rajesh, who was killed in one of the most brutal assaults on an American base during the war, his life canceled in a weird parenthesis, a nowhere land between nations.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Mar. 2026
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“Caesura.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caesura. Accessed 18 Apr. 2026.
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