caesuras

variants or caesurae
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plural of caesura
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Noun
  • Kahn pauses, momentarily at a loss for words.
    Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2026
  • However, Samsung's workers' union disputed the impact of the strikes, saying in a statement that previous production pauses had occurred for equipment inspection, maintenance and process adjustments.
    Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 18 May 2026
Noun
  • Top 10 With records through Wednesday and previous rankings in parentheses.
    Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2026
  • The prose is hypnotic, all the more so for its many digressions and parentheses, unveiling tiny set pieces like so many Fabergé eggs.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 May 2026
Noun
  • Available on demand to Apple Music subscribers, Lady Gaga’s intimate performance at the Wiltern in Los Angeles features a performance of her entire last album complete with rearrangements and interludes.
    Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 15 May 2026
  • On his latest album of shaky rapping and abstract interludes, the multi-hyphenate creator finds a strange middle ground.
    Olivier Lafontant, Pitchfork, 15 May 2026
Noun
  • Jimenez’s ‘Si Senor’ song was belted out at regular intervals and fans would have been encouraged to hear the Mexican, speaking after the game, open up the prospect of a return to Wolves when his Fulham contract expires this summer.
    Steve Madeley, New York Times, 18 May 2026
  • Buses run daily at around 15-minute intervals.
    Kristy Tolley, Travel + Leisure, 16 May 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • Where the VisEra device does fall short is in its response to light that comes in at an angle because of discontinuities in the metasurface.
    Gwendolyn Rak, IEEE Spectrum, 13 Dec. 2023
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