entr'acte

noun

Definition of entr'actenext
as in time lag

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  1. time lag
  2. interim
  3. window
  4. interval
  5. interruption
  6. interlude
  7. intermission
  8. lag
Noun
  • Satellite data is available consistently but has a time lag.
    — Monica Sanders, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • The time lag breaks momentum, and people who are unfamiliar with design begin to settle.
    — Nia Bowers, USA Today, 27 Apr. 2026
Definition of time lag
Noun
  • The team went through eight head coaches (including interims) during that span, with Kubiak being the ninth, and six general managers.
    — Sam Warren, New York Times, 22 July 2026
  • Over the past month, however, the benchmark 10-year gilt yield has risen by around 19 basis points, while the longer-term 30-year gilt yield has added around 21 basis points, with both seeing choppy trade in the interim.
    — Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 21 July 2026
Definition of interim
Noun
  • Tournament football isn’t generally conducive to pressing, with so many matches squeezed into such a short window, and without the cohesion that comes from club sides training together for months.
    — Michael Cox, New York Times, 22 July 2026
  • That stacks up against the 176 conventional seawalls permitted by Fort Lauderdale in the same window where the church applied for one, the church said.
    — Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 22 July 2026
Definition of window
Noun
  • Weeks 4 through 6 drop the rest intervals and build to a continuous 20-, 25- and then 30-minute walk.
    — Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 31 July 2026
  • The latest season represented about 94% of viewing this interval.
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 30 July 2026
Definition of interval
Noun
  • The robot immediately responds to the interruption and halts the operation, illustrating Unitree’s focus on continuous human-robot interaction and dynamic task adaptation.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 21 July 2026
  • The money sits in the business interruption and the extra expense, the long dead stretch while a specialised transformer or a particular chip waits on an 18-month backorder.
    — Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
Definition of interruption
Noun
  • In a series of video interludes that break up the performance into acts, Grande plays Peaches, a woman who wants to undergo a procedure to erase her painful memories.
    — Mitch Therieau, New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Villalobos’ career spans thirty years in the school district with a brief interlude in the private sector, working for education technology companies.
    — Austin Horn July 30, Miami Herald, 30 July 2026
Definition of interlude
Noun
  • Young hit three 3-pointers and scored 22 points — her career high in a first half — on 7-of-9 shooting as the Aces took a 52-44 lead into the intermission.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 31 July 2026
  • Up by nine at intermission, the Lynx created plenty of more breathing room in the in opening four minutes of the second half in a lopsided victory over Toronto on Thursday.
    — Mike Cook, Twin Cities, 31 July 2026
Definition of intermission
Noun
  • Whether higher denial rates for naturalization are linked to the new civics test for applicants filing on or after October 2o is not known, given the lag time between filing an application and scheduling the test is typically several months.
    — Stuart Anderson, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • While a one-second response lag is acceptable in text chat, that same pause feels awkward and disruptive in spoken conversation.
    — Sebastian Herrera, Fortune, 27 July 2026
Definition of lag
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“Entr'acte.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/entr%27acte. Accessed 3 Aug. 2026.

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