caesuras

variants or caesurae
plural of caesura

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Noun
  • 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
  • Because the Dolce Vita runs on regular Italian tracks, there are occasional pauses for more mundane events like engine swaps, traffic snarlups and delays.
    Antonia Mortensen, CNN Money, 28 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
  • The book, probably still my pick as King’s scariest novel if not his best, is overpacked with additional flashbacks and interludes that could have been fodder for multiple seasons of television.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Still, the season hits several hallmarks that have come to define the series, including warped timelines and unexpected musical interludes.
    Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • There will be intervals of clouds and sunshine with a couple of showers and breezy.
    Leah Olajide, Freep.com, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Reheat in the microwave on Medium in 30-second intervals.
    Ann Taylor Pittman, Southern Living, 18 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 2 Nov. 2025.

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