CAESURA Synonyms: 38 Similar and Opposite Words

caesura

noun

Definition of caesura

as in comma

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Recent Examples of caesura For instance, the caesura that is commonly found at the center of each line of Anglo-Saxon verse conveyed a meaning to native speakers that is lost to us today. — Literary Hub, 20 May 2025 With National Socialism from 1933, however, a caesura occurred that is still unparalleled today. — 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 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 For Rapsody’s verse, medial caesura fashions a rhythmic back and forth — a left-foot, right-foot two-step. — Adam Bradley, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2021 There's a caesura, and then all the hands in the congregation go up. — Michael Paterniti, GQ, 26 June 2018

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Noun

Even if an applicant uses AI to help optimize their application, if a tracking system is flagging resumes for specific keywords or phrases, a misplaced comma may be the reason an applicant is never seriously considered, Dobson said.

— Rachel Barber, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026
Peyush Bansal, the cofounder of eyewear retailer Lenskart Solutions, is the latest Indian to join the three-comma club.

— Anu Raghunathan, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of comma

Noun

The Appalachian Trail Conservancy defines a thru-hike as completing all of the trail’s sections in any order within a year, allowing for pauses.

— Holly Ramer, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2026
This summer's pause in data reporting for Somalia came at a particularly precarious time.

— Durrie Bouscaren, NPR, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of pause

Noun

Additionally, the frequent interludes of dialogue from the Idlewild movie released at the same time don’t add much to the proceedings, and function as more of an inside joke than anything else.

— John Hugar, SPIN, 26 Aug. 2026
It Brizé’s fourth time in competition at Venice after the Fipresci Prize winning A Woman’s Life as well as Another World and romantic interlude Out of Season, starring Guillaume Canet and Rohrwacher.

— Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of interlude

Noun

After disc removal, the resulting interspace requires robust reconstruction to restore height, alignment, and stability.

— Richard Menger MD MPA, Forbes.com, 8 May 2026
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

Definition of interspace

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Bright whites, turquoise blues, and beachy wood tones almost felt Balearic in aesthetic, and a glass window on the floor by the bed made spotting marine life each morning a joy.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Aug. 2026
The state also acknowledged technical interruptions affecting some schools during this year’s testing window.

— Katie Pace Miles, New York Daily News, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of window

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This is particularly true as AI generates ambiguity in business operations, whether due to discontinuities created by access suspension to models undergoing export control restrictions, or models adding watermarks that create questions of ownership.

— Nisha Talagala, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
But it can also be read to argue that something well short of an extinction-level event can introduce real historical discontinuity.

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 25 July 2026

Definition of discontinuity

Noun

But those earnings are paid out on a 60-day lag, limiting Baumeyer’s ability to use the income to scale his business up.

— Justin Birnbaum, Sportico.com, 26 Aug. 2026
Speaking of lag—or, lack thereof—the Odyssey G51F also boasts AMD FreeSync, which syncs up your laptop or PC’s GPU and the monitor’s panel to match the refresh rates on the fly.

— Kelsey Fogarty, PC Magazine, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of lag

Noun

All figures in parentheses below are current estimates for those crop years in million bales.

— SJ Guest Editorial, Footwear News, 18 Aug. 2026
The work, of course, remains unfinished, although the parenthesis’s open-endedness functioned like a magnet for countless later writers, inviting them to graft their versions of how the book should continue.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Aug. 2026

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