breather
Example Sentences
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The stock prices have taken a breather in the past couple of months because there is a fear of peak capex as software becomes increasingly tokenized, and as labor becomes tokenized.
From Barron's
"But the government will have a breather for a couple of weeks, to save some energy."
From Barron's
Into that hole she and Ms. Andrade will plunge—after, naturally, a sauna—and begin Ms. Andrade’s training as an endurance swimmer and endurance breather.
“The first step is for me to kind of take a breather after the pace that I’ve been running for seven years,” he said.
Markets remained volatile, but Treasury traders took a breather with yields little changed across the curve.
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