interval
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At 17-14 edging towards half-time the contest was in the balance, before a match-defining sequence just before the interval.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
Food companies are increasingly interested in that interval, too.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
Mr. Meyer’s puts a welcome focus on Arendt’s Paris years, which other writers have treated as an interval between German apprenticeship and American fame.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
With this, Saints finally gained some possession and repeat sets and McColm went over just before the interval.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Any scale with this interval pattern can be called a 11dorian minor scale11.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
After 77 years of intervals of tolerance alternating with intervals of repression, official statistics acknowledge 44 million registered Christians.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
The Rumbler interacts with a standard police siren, which generates around 110 to 120 decibels, and amplifies that sound through its speakers in eight-second intervals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Pharrell’s ad-libs and inserts interrupting the groove at perfect intervals to wake up the dancefloor.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
Depending on the terms of the lease, the amount can either double at fixed intervals or increase in line with inflation, which can make a property harder to sell, mortgage or remortgage.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
It was bigger than any our master owned, with a line of jerrican buoys dotted at intervals over what must have been a kilometer.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
Vocabulary lists containing interval
Ides, Eon, Epoch, and Era: Time-related Words
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