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interlude

[in-ter-lood] / ˈɪn tərˌlud /


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There will be a drier and brighter interlude on Wednesday, with the rest of the week staying a little unsettled with further spells of rain.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

I can still remember how blue the skies in California seemed during that brief interlude.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

A poolside interlude channels the tension of distance between two people who were once close: The woman grasps a book but seems primarily absorbed in melancholy; the man broods around her.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

Markets treated that memorandum of understanding as the end to the war, but it was actually a short-lived interlude “in an ongoing war,” analysts at Piper Sandler said in a note.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026

And the colleges of Oxford, after a brief and turbulent interlude, were settling back into the calm of scholarship and ritual.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

However, long-range forecasting is fraught with uncertainty and while the season as a whole may be mild, some chilly interludes are also anticipated.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Unsettled weather looks likely to continue beyond that with spells of rain interspersed with drier, brighter interludes.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

While past records often featured such incense-perfumed instrumentals as connecting interludes, here the background has been moved to the front.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

The new set squeezes 20 tracks into a 46-minute runtime, many of which are short interludes designed to keep things moving.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

Well, it’s my idea that in all these interludes, whenever Dave became a psychiatric case, he went off into a moronic maze, spending his time twiddling his fingers.”

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov


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