interval
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Smartphones “have made it possible to fill in, immediately, an interval of emptiness.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
In a study published in the journal Nature, Virginia Tech geobiologist Shuhai Xiao and his collaborators describe a 550 million-year-old sea sponge fossil that falls squarely within this missing interval.
From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026
Manchester City demolished Liverpool in an 18-minute period which spanned the half-time break, scoring twice either side of the interval following an evenly matched opening half an hour.
From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026
In one such case, Cliffwater’s corporate lending interval fund saw redemptions reach nearly 14% of shares outstanding this quarter, up from 5.3% in the last three months of 2025.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
NOTE: The type of interval or chord — major, minor, diminished, etc., is not important when you are determining the position of the chord.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
Vocabulary lists containing interval
Ides, Eon, Epoch, and Era: Time-related Words
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Unit 1: Telling Details
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