caesuras

variants or caesurae
plural of caesura

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Noun
  • This straightforward plot is often broken up by poetic interludes, made up of languid shots of a changing cityscape.
    Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 17 Mar. 2025
  • For the two musical interludes, Gaga was at her most exacting and confrontational.
    Esther Zuckerman, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • This is actually a 60-second tourbillon housing a free sprung balance beating at 3 Hz, with a cage featuring 5 arms indexed in 12 second intervals.
    Blake Buettner, Robb Report, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Not only was that the natural way to tell the story from his perspective as a narrator, aware of the tragic events, but that was also a way to grab the audience’s attention, hence his decision as well to insert reminders of the tragedy through the voice over at various intervals.
    Annika Pham, Variety, 21 Mar. 2025
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“Caesuras.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caesuras. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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