intermission
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Intermission was started early, and the teams played the remainder of the first period after the break.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 16, 2023
Episode Intermission only lasts a few hours, but it’s designed to show the story and world from a different perspective.
From The Verge • Jul. 7, 2021
I-8: BUTTBREAK: Intermission after a long first act.
From Washington Post • Nov. 13, 2019
Players from an earlier game cleared the floor, as Dom Kennedy’s “A Intermission for Watts” boomed over the loudspeakers: “Love to the Eastside, but Watts is the motherland.”
From The New Yorker • Aug. 4, 2016
However, as he busied himself incessantly, and repeated Touch after Touch without Rest or Intermission, he wore off insensibly every little disagreeable Gloss that hung upon a Figure.
From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph
Vocabulary lists containing intermission
Reading: Literature - Drama - Introductory
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Reading: Literature - Drama - Middle School
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Blasted to Smithereens: Synonyms for "Break"
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