caesuras

variants or caesurae
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plural of caesura
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Noun
  • Business major Andrea Lui found the chatbot’s voice to be surprisingly human, but the conversation felt choppy with odd pauses.
    Jocelyn Gecker, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Business major Andrea Lui found the chatbot’s voice to be surprisingly human, but the conversation felt choppy with odd pauses.
    Jocelyn Gecker, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Top 10 With records through Monday and previous rankings in parentheses.
    Paul Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 21 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
  • Elaborate stages are built for the camera close-ups as much as the crowd, often featuring prefab cinematic interludes, ornately detailed costumes, titillating dance moves and surreal, maximalist graphics.
    Andrea Domanick, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • Position two or three oven racks at even intervals and heat the oven to three-fifty.
    Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Rain chances may linger into Thursday and Friday, though intervals of sun are also possible as temperatures hold in the mid to upper 60s.
    Baltimore Sun staff, Baltimore Sun, 26 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 30 Apr. 2026.

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