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Recent Examples of intermission The night will kick off with host Pamela Brown's pre-show coverage at 6:30 p.m. outside of the Winter Garden Theatre, followed by the live play which runs for approximately one hour and 40 minutes with no intermission. Emily Blackwood, People.com, 7 June 2025 Haymarket’s production runs four, counting two necessary intermissions. Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2025 Here, Cordoba opens up to Glamour about her audition process, intermission snack breaks, and singing and dancing on stage in her undies, even while on her period. Caitlin Brody, Glamour, 23 June 2025 The Thunder entered intermission with 12 giveaways. Bobby Krivitsky, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for intermission
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Noun
  • Always follow the label directions carefully, but most fungicides are applied at 7 to 10 day intervals throughout the season.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 12 July 2025
  • And because historical intervals for major earthquakes in that area occur at an average of 100 to 200 years, stress between the plates was assumed to be nearing its breaking point.
    Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 9 July 2025
Noun
  • Service interruptions are possible because of construction or weather.
    JP Shaffer July 10, Sacbee.com, 10 July 2025
  • Countries that were once polio-free have had polio outbreaks due to interruptions in childhood immunization programs caused by war and conflict.
    Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 9 July 2025
Noun
  • What's guaranteed for now, at least, is that Percy Jackson is slated to return in December after an extended hiatus, adapting the series' second book, Sea of Monsters.
    EW.com, EW.com, 22 July 2025
  • Flume ended a two-year musical hiatus in May, releasing the We Live in a Society EP with JPEGMafia, and is currently working on his fourth studio album.
    Tyler Jenke, Billboard, 18 July 2025
Noun
  • Decisions are made, the next task appears, and there’s little pause to examine what worked or what missed.
    Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
  • Even though no funding has been cut, Jackson condemned the administration, contending the effect of the pause is going to be massive and could result in North Carolina firing about 1,000 educators.
    ABC News, ABC News, 14 July 2025
Noun
  • The actors are so terrific and their chemistry so palpable that the hangout scenes in their fabulous Baxter Building penthouse — with a domestic droid that’s like Rosie the Robot from The Jetsons meets Number 5 from John Badham’s Short Circuit — are some of the movie’s most appealing interludes.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 22 July 2025
  • Aside from a few conversational interludes featuring the comedian Druski, which aim to comedically, or clunkily, say aloud what everyone’s been wondering—Is Bieber appropriating Black culture?
    Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 16 July 2025

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“Intermission.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intermission. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.

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