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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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But no one really cared about pitch counts in that era, which could help explain why Koufax retired in the fall of ’66 at the age of 30, having pitched his last two seasons with an arthritic condition in a left elbow that Scully once remarked looked like a comma.—
Jim Alexander,
Oc Register,
8 Sep. 2025
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Pressing the comma key takes you to the start of an item, such as a large table or long list, while pressing the period key takes you to the end.—
Michael Muchmore,
PC Magazine,
7 Sep. 2025
Noun
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After battling Bukele in public and her own embassy in private, Manes announced a pause in diplomatic relations and left El Salvador in late 2021.—
T. Christian Miller,
ProPublica,
30 Sep. 2025
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His showing over the weekend, however, should at least give the Canucks some pause.—
Thomas Drance,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Narrated by a Spanish sailor—also a hero of Lepanto—whom Don Quixote and Sancho Panza encounter in an inn, the short interlude is mostly composed of the daring story of the captive’s escape through the intercession of a lovely and beautiful Moorish woman named Zoraida.—
Ed Simon
September 22,
Literary Hub,
22 Sep. 2025
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Her ballads were torch-song interludes that could have knocked them dead in lounges a century ago.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
21 Sep. 2025
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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
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The vast majority of those applications were submitted during the state's first priority window, which ran March 3-23.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
2 Oct. 2025
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With parishioners running to hide or get out of the building, Carter and Max were pushed up against a glass window separating the chapel from the foyer, which led to an exit.—
Georgea Kovanis,
Freep.com,
1 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Her use of repetition and discontinuity communicate her inquisitive approach to breaking these strictures.—
Elizabeth Mangini,
Artforum,
1 Sep. 2025
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Any degradation or discontinuity in the data, whether in terms of quality or quantity, could negatively affect the model's forecasting skill, scientists warn.—
Matthew Glasser,
ABC News,
30 July 2025
Noun
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When gaming, the TV has Auto Game Mode and Game Accelerator, which together, reduces input lag and leads to more responsive gameplay.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
3 Oct. 2025
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Though still on the books, the protocols established for broadcasting in 1927 might seem to be a classic instance of technological-cultural lag.—
Thomas Doherty,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Sep. 2025
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The notes — about 30 rows of capital letters, numbers, dashes and parentheses broken into sections — baffled investigators.—
Christina Coulter,
PEOPLE,
27 Sep. 2025
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Write down the points in parentheses next to your answer choice.—
Renessa Boley Layne,
Forbes.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Caesura.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caesura. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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