ENTR'ACTES Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

entr'actes

noun

plural of entr'acte

as in time lags

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Noun

Top 10 best malls Here are USA Today readers’ 2026 selections of their favorite malls in the United States with last year’s rank in parentheses.

— Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 15 June 2026
Top 10 With records through Wednesday and previous rankings in parentheses.

— Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2026

Definition of parentheses

Noun

That means maintaining an AI inventory, assigning ownership, setting review intervals, monitoring safety and equity metrics and deciding what requires legal, compliance, clinical or patient-safety review.

— Dr. Alena Fuchs, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
Although the numbers on the chassis were divided into various unrelated intervals, the transmissions appeared to be numbered sequentially, as were the tank guns, heaters, road wheels and turret engines.

— Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 7 July 2026

Definition of intervals

Noun

His warnings contrasted starkly with the brief but glorious interludes of culinary fabulism that punctuated our travel down South.

— Rachel Tepper Paley, Bon Appetit Magazine, 1 July 2026
And young Bochner is understandably queasy in his delivery of the poetic lines he’s been handed for these same interludes.

— Arthur Knight, HollywoodReporter, 25 June 2026

Definition of interludes

Noun

Parisians have taken to sticking aluminum foil to their windows to reflect sunlight, rolling down their window shutters and living in utter darkness, and forgoing any meals that require turning on the stove or oven.

— Jessica Roy, Curbed, 29 June 2026
Dressing your windows not only gives them a more finished look, window coverings bring a slew of benefits.

— Sarah Lyon, The Spruce, 30 May 2026

Definition of windows

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Josefowicz, in her decathlon of a performance, brought Ligeti’s savage discontinuities to the surface.

— Alex Ross, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
The tapping may provide information about structural discontinuities, density changes or the presence of tunnels themselves, even when those tunnels are no longer empty.

— Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026

Definition of discontinuities

Noun

Casemiro was able to coast through performances against poor Haiti and Scotland sides in two of Brazil’s group stage games, but Morocco provided much sterner opposition that exposed some worrying gaps in midfield.

— Mark Carey, New York Times, 6 July 2026
The problem, inherent to the design, has always been the physical gaps between those individual boxes.

— Dave Brooks, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026

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