caesuras

variants or caesurae
Definition of caesurasnext
plural of caesura

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Noun
  • And at one point Stephanie pauses, carefully choosing words.
    Gerald Witt, AJC.com, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Audio deepfakes might include unnatural pauses or generate delays.
    Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Top 10 With records through Monday and previous rankings in parentheses.
    Rick Armstrong, Chicago Tribune, 24 Feb. 2026
  • At one point in the Symposium on Young American Men, one of the few female panelists named a statistic about suicidal thoughts among young men—then, as if in parentheses, added that the rate was even higher for women.
    Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 23 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Newsom details the everyday struggle living with his mom after his parents divorced and occasional interludes into his father’s life charmed by the Gettys’ affluence, including that day when the Gettys outfitted him in designer clothes at a luxury department store.
    Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2026
  • The tracks here are shorter, often resembling the plangent interludes one finds studded across Boards of Canada albums, but dressed up in Western wear.
    Daniel Bromfield, Pitchfork, 11 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • There will be four matches per day from June 13-23 and six per day from June 24-27, many at irregular times and intervals.
    Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Digging in at irregular intervals can disrupt your circadian rhythm, slow down your metabolism, and interfere with digestion.
    Caroline Tien, SELF, 2 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Where the VisEra device does fall short is in its response to light that comes in at an angle because of discontinuities in the metasurface.
    Gwendolyn Rak, IEEE Spectrum, 13 Dec. 2023
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“Caesuras.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caesuras. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.

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