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After a four-month hiatus, Days of Our Lives resumed production.hiatus = gap in time when activity stopped
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She took a nine-month hiatus from performing, so she could concentrate on writing new songs.hiatus = gap in time
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I should hasten to admit, however, that there was a considerable hiatus between the first stolen book and the second. (source)
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Uncle Bulwer was pecked on top of his head during a fortunate hiatus in what should have been a most private action, and he was so fearful of the attacking owl that he fled the privy with his pants down at his ankles, and did even greater injury to himself--greater than the owl's injury--by running headfirst into a pine tree. (source)hiatus = break (gap in time without activity)
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The two of them crouched by the hold a moment longer in a shared hiatus from their work. (source)hiatus = break
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It just went on hiatus. (source)hiatus = a gap in time without activity
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There came a pause, a hiatus, the pig continued to scream and the creepers to jerk, and the blade continued to flash at the end of a bony arm. (source)hiatus = gap in time without activity
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There were still hiatuses for her in Mrs. Struthers's past.† (source)hiatuses = gaps in time
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It fit what they knew of him, his persistent phone calls, his obsession with the neighbor, and Detective Fenerman having visited that same day to tell my parents that for all intents and purposes my murder investigation had entered a sort of hiatus. (source)hiatus = gap in time without activity
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Never was ordinary conversation cleft by such hiatuses, such prolonged and unembarrassed moments of ruminant non-speech.† (source)hiatuses = gaps in time
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They decide they will travel that summer, when school is out for Eric and Pari can take a brief hiatus from her Ph.D. work. (source)hiatus = gap in time without activity
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Hiss's delivery tended to run in quick spurts separated by nearly interminable pauses—pauses in which there was almost audible a thudding tread of thought, the clotted Gothic ratiocination—and during such hiatuses Sophie would stare at the walls, all unadorned save for that work of supremely grandiose Kitsch she had seen before, a multipasteled Adolf Hitler in heroic profile, clad like a Knight of the Grail in armor of Solingen stainless steel.† (source)hiatuses = gaps in time
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When the construction of the Red October was restarted after a two-year hiatus, Ramius knew that he would command her. (source)hiatus = gap in time without activity
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After their big win in their first game back after Luma's enforced hiatus, the 15s had lost 4–1 to a middle-of-the-pack team. (source)
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She took advantage of the hiatus of his convalescence to reproach him for his passivity as he waited for the answer to his letter. (source)
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She filled up the hiatus his silence left by a reply of her own. (source)
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