hiatus
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After a brief hiatus due to the 2020 pandemic, the event returned in 2022 with Interpol, Modest Mouse, the Shins and M.I.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
Robinson called on Burrows to nominate a replacement "as quickly as possible", adding: "I don't think it is helpful or fruitful for there to be this hiatus within health."
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
After an extended hiatus from acting, Panettiere was returning to work and primed for an even bigger comeback.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026
Narratively, “Silver Lake” barely held together and might be responsible for his extended hiatus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Bessie supplied the hiatus by a homily of an hour’s length, in which she proved beyond a doubt that I was the most wicked and abandoned child ever reared under a roof.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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These micro-retreats have proven so energizing that I now take a few each year—and science suggests such hiatuses, despite their brief duration, can renew enthusiasm and relieve mental exhaustion in potent ways.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
Both bands have been around since the early noughties and have had their fair share of break-ups, reunions, hiatuses and comebacks over the years.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2024
The union has argued that outdated contract terms, coupled with shorter seasons and longer hiatuses between seasons make it increasingly hard for many actors to maintain a middle-class lifestyle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2023
Bands that had been waiting to release new albums until they could realistically envision touring them are now tentatively re-emerging from extended hiatuses.
From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 2021
Between convulsive sobs she told him, he bridging the hiatuses of emotion with "Oh-dear-oh-dears," in which alarm and sympathy were nicely mingled.
From Once Aboard the Lugger by A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth) Hutchinson
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