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coffee break

NOUN
pause from work
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After a quick midmorning coffee break, Lira launches into his prep work shift, crafting goat cheese and red pepper empanadas.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2025

The designer brand boasts a strawberry milk printed crossbody, a coffee break tote, a silk tomato ketchup bandana, a snack pendant and gold-toned ketchup packet, fries and hot dog drop earrings.

From Salon • Jul. 20, 2024

It later turned out that the coffee break that saved Ukraine's EU accession bid had been planned all along.

From BBC • Dec. 15, 2023

And what followed the salvo fired on Wednesday morning in eastern Ukraine was also indicative of the rhythm of this war: a coffee break.

From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2022

Thus the coffee break is a rest in many senses.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck




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