intermissions

plural of intermission

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of intermissions Cinematographer Adam Carboni frames most of the movie in a glowing daytime warmth, peppered with gorgeous intermissions that plunge the audience into starry nights that give the whole affair a music video-like pulse. Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2026 Thankfully, the bathroom lines at Venice intermissions are not too long, as 70 percent of the audience uses the opportunity to duck out and have a smoke. Nate Jones, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2026 The prior 22 World Cups did not have a halftime show, mostly because match intermissions are short. Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 19 July 2026 Because match commentators are asked to take the helm of halftime themselves, those intermissions are usually rote recitations of highlights rather than any sort of tactical breakdown that would require time away from a microphone to prepare. Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026 There will also be two short intermissions. Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026 Newport’s skillful direction drives the more than 3½-hour play (including two intermissions), making every minute count. Michelle F. Solomon, Miami Herald, 26 Mar. 2026 The wave of customers who visit the concession stands during intermissions makes speed of service more important for venues than for most stores, restaurants or taverns. David Bruce, USA Today, 24 Feb. 2026 After the first of two intermissions (a choice that logistically makes sense but somewhat slows the pace), the action jumps to Marlene’s present day, in the early years of conservative politician Margaret Thatcher’s tenure as the UK’s prime minister. Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 20 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for intermissions
Noun
  • This work later proved that prime numbers, while randomly scattered in small sections of the number line, appear to be regularly arranged over sufficiently large intervals.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Tickets cost £33 (about $44) and are sold in 10-minute intervals, for a 40-minute visit, but the first batch are sold out.
    Lauren Frayer, NPR, 9 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Mercury opposes hazy Neptune, making expectations unclear and interruptions harder to manage.
    Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 12 Sep. 2026
  • Additionally, customers who experience more than six electric service interruptions of at least five minutes in 12 months will receive an outage credit.
    Arpan Lobo, Freep.com, 11 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Manon Bannerman and Sophia Laforteza are taking separate hiatuses from Katseye; while Bannerman’s status in the group remains unknown, Laforteza’s mental-health break will continue until she’s reassessed in September.
    Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Haircut 100, on the other hand, took some long hiatuses as a band.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 23 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Some deepfakes still have telltale flaws such as unnatural facial movements, lip-sync glitches, robotic speech or awkward pauses — but the technology is rapidly improving, a spokesperson for the organization said.
    Emily Elconin for CNN, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2026
  • If pauses were put in place, wouldn’t that cost your business quite a lot of money, and Anthropic’s business quite a lot of money, ahead of these critical moments in public-market debuts?
    Fortune Editors, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • However, these gaps in the system rarely get prioritized in future enhancements due to competing priorities.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026
  • The fund now focuses on creating new programs to rethink rural health, instead of filling in financial gaps.
    Daniel Payne, STAT, 14 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Additionally, the frequent interludes of dialogue from the Idlewild movie released at the same time don’t add much to the proceedings, and function as more of an inside joke than anything else.
    John Hugar, SPIN, 26 Aug. 2026
  • The Thai public was willing to tolerate only short interludes of military rule, and coup makers had no choice but to promise the imminent restoration of democracy.
    Duncan McCargo, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2026

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“Intermissions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intermissions. Accessed 22 Sep. 2026.

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