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hiatus

noun as in pause, interruption

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Despite leading his country to back-to-back Euros following a 23-year hiatus, the 62-year-old is sometimes met with mixed emotions within the Tartan Army.

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Treasury yields declined during early European trade as market attention increasingly turns to the Federal Reserve’s December meeting following a data hiatus during the government shutdown.

After a hiatus, many of the stars associated with those earlier films are back, except now they’re middle-aged or older.

Jelks and Wells gradually took over shop, and when Earth, Wind and Fire took a hiatus in 1984, they began designing for a Minnesotan upstart named Prince.

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But their drawn-out legal battle has forced them into a hiatus.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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