interregnum
Example Sentences
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"I feel deeply conflicted. I quite enjoy this period when we're editing - where the whole season is there but we haven't put it out yet. I like the interregnum," he said.
From BBC
All that jazz! — or were they a societal interregnum, the intermission between two decades of disaster?
From New York Times
“The Women of Troy” takes place in the uneasy interregnum between the Greeks’ victory and their departure.
From Washington Post
In Gramsci's "Prison Notebooks," he wrote: "The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear."
From Salon
At that time a whole series of rites and rituals comes into play governing the “interregnum” — the period between the end of one pontificate and the election of a new pope.
From Seattle Times
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