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coffee break

NOUN
pause from work
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Your Outlook or Slack status may switch to “away,” making you appear as inactive as if you were taking an extended coffee break.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

During the coffee break, he joined a small group discussing Pes’s presentation.

From Science Magazine Nov. 20, 2024

The designer brand boasts a strawberry milk printed crossbody, a coffee break tote, a silk tomato ketchup bandana, a snack pendant and gold-toned ketchup packet, fries and hot dog drop earrings.

From Salon Jul. 20, 2024

Outside the university, in an area popular with tourists, Faig Jafarli, 27, was out on his coffee break from work when he noticed that a road near the university was shut.

From BBC Dec. 22, 2023

But Isabel and Nate were all the way on the other side of the apartment with my parents, taking a coffee break in the kitchen.

From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio




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