breather
Example Sentences
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Some traders might just be using the last few weeks of the year to take a breather, Hill said.
He and his colleague jumped in the back of the ambulance to take a "10 second breather" before deciding they needed to join the rescue effort.
From BBC
Have you been writing more or are you taking a breather now that the album is out?
From Los Angeles Times
Traders took silence from New York's Thanksgiving break as a reason to have a breather and take stock of a healthy rebound from November's swoon that was sparked by AI bubble threats.
From Barron's
“There are certainly pockets of the AI space where valuations needed to take a breather, but Nvidia is not in that camp,” Matt Britzman of Hargreaves Lansdown wrote after the report Wednesday.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.