caesuras

variants or caesurae
Definition of caesurasnext
plural of caesura

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Noun
  • Women also have more hypopneas (shallow breaths with less oxygen flow), whereas men tend toward apneas (complete pauses in breathing).
    Katie Camero, SELF, 16 Apr. 2026
  • According to the Cleveland Clinic, premature babies can experience these pauses along with a slow heart rate or low blood oxygen levels.
    Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 16 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Top 10 With records through Tuesday and previous rankings in parentheses.
    Steve Millar, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Each writer’s personal ranking will appear in parentheses next to their name.
    Johnny Flores Jr, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Jean-Baptiste, who trained as a cellist, arranges his songs—some of which are barely over a minute long—like a chamber cycle punctuated with interludes.
    Emma Madden, Pitchfork, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Where Beyoncé added poetic interludes between songs, in Songs from the Hole, the audience learns about Jacobs' story and how his music spiritually liberates him while simultaneously being among the reasons officials cited for not granting him parole.
    Kara Frame, NPR, 12 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Structured exercise also can incorporate intervals where people alternate between moderate and more intense effort.
    Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 15 Apr. 2026
  • In October 2025, Ellenberg asked Wagner at DeepMind to use AlphaEvolve (which is not publicly available) to analyze the structures of the Bruhat intervals of dozens of permutation groups.
    Konstantin Kakaes, Quanta Magazine, 13 Apr. 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 23 Apr. 2026.

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