entr'actes

Definition of entr'actesnext
plural of entr'acte
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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
  • 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
  • The stumbles seen on race day were largely engineering hiccups—hardware tuning, stability margins—not fundamental limits of AI.
    Ni Tao, Interesting Engineering, 20 Apr. 2026
  • But the race wasn’t without hiccups — one robot fell flat at the start line, another bumped into a barrier.
    ABC News, ABC News, 18 Apr. 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
  • Burke spoke only to consent to intermittent interruptions of his preliminary hearing, allowing the court to address other pending matters.
    Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Quality family time without interruptions or distractions is easily found here.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 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
Noun
  • In sixteenth-century Italian pedante comedies, the Latin tutors—always the butt of the joke—are known more for the gaps in their knowledge than for their erudition.
    Clare Bucknell, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Policymakers, especially here in Tokyo, would be wise to accept more foreign workers to plug labor gaps, but that’s not a durable answer on its own.
    Catherine Thorbecke, Twin Cities, 25 Apr. 2026
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
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“Entr'actes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/entr%27actes. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.

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