CAESURA Synonyms: 38 Similar and Opposite Words

caesura

noun

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as in comma

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Recent Examples of caesura 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 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

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Noun

Each of the four tracks on At Source has a two-word title, split down the middle with a comma.

— Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 2 Mar. 2026
Starmer, a former human-rights lawyer, approaches every problem with an arid obsession with process rather than outcome—as if, when people follow every dot and comma of the rules, nothing bad can happen and no one should complain.

— Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2025