caesuras

variants or caesurae
plural of caesura

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for caesuras
Noun
  • Spearheaded by The People's Union USA, these spending pauses have lasted anywhere from 24 hours to one week.
    Alex Perry, Cincinnati Enquirer, 6 Nov. 2025
  • This resulted in the disruption of non-essential public services, including pauses in funding and federal employee salaries, the closure of national parks and administrative delays across federal agencies.
    Lauren Giella, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The notes — about 30 rows of capital letters, numbers, dashes and parentheses broken into sections — baffled investigators.
    Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Top 10 With records through Monday and previous rankings in parentheses.
    Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • And the titles show the Bonnie and Clyde-esque murder of the Bradley Gang, an event detailed in one of Mike Hanlon’s historical interludes in the book.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2025
  • According to co-creator Andy Muschietti, who also directed the films, Welcome to Derry will adapt the book's various interludes, which dig deep into Derry's violent history and how its namesake creature factors into it.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The celestial events happen annually or at other intervals, NASA says.
    Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The film, as its title indicates, is set over the course of five years, picking up at different key intervals (starting, of course, with an anniversary party for Diane Lane’s Ellen and Kyle Chandler’s Paul) in the life of the Taylor family.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 30 Oct. 2025
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 7 Nov. 2025.

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