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interval

[in-ter-vuhl] / ˈɪn tər vəl /


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In a study published in the journal Nature, Virginia Tech geobiologist Shuhai Xiao and his collaborators describe a 550 million-year-old sea sponge fossil that falls squarely within this missing interval.

From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026

Carlyle Group’s flagship private-credit interval fund is the latest to be hit with a wave of share-redemption requests, as investor fears about a potential private-credit meltdown continue.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley and T. Rowe’s Oak Hill Advisors are raising money for interval funds, a different private-credit format than nontraded BDCs.

From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026

Manchester City demolished Liverpool in an 18-minute period which spanned the half-time break, scoring twice either side of the interval following an evenly matched opening half an hour.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

Every interval is then simply a certain number of semitones.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones




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