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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

The retired California Highway Patrol officer said he and his partner were just coming off a coffee break in Paso Robles when they got the call.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025

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

Those of you who are fellow office workers and find yourselves reading this incisive journal during a coffee break or such might take note of one or two of my innovations.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole




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