respite

This week could bring some respite to Treasurys, according to Williams, given the lack of issuance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

This gives the chancellor a few months of respite on the electoral front.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

These breaks are a welcome respite from long stretches of sitting and screen-based learning, which is common in some classrooms despite questions about its efficacy.

From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026

For the devoted Kenyan chai lover, that may offer some respite.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

Funny thing, it also makes me take a little extra care when I dig one so it might be a place of respite for the next guy to come along.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

There were brief respites, but things seldom got easier: “The wind whipped up at noon and sleet came smacking down,” Mr. Tesson recalls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

Even for malaria the respites may be transient.

From Science Magazine ● Sep. 25, 2023

Bad Bunny also recently said that he takes much-needed respites from social media.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2023

But these respites only emphasize a pervasive sense of confinement.

From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2022

Her crimes had seemed minimal, but now Ophie could not help but see her afternoon respites through her mother’s eyes, and shame ran through her, hot and itchy.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

Whereupon the House ordered that their appearance be recorded, and that they attend again to-morrow, in order to plead the pardon; and the recognizance of the Lord Nairn was respited till that day fortnight.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

She felt herself respited; yet doubly angry and apprehensive.

From Anne by Constance Fenimore Woolson

Their doom will not be lightened, neither will they be reprieved; S: Abiding in it; their chastisement shall not be lightened nor shall they be respited.

From Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side by Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Great compassion was evinced for her in the court, but she was still found guilty, though being near her pregnancy, her execution was respited.

From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume III (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Walter Thornbury

The His punishment respited Protector was then addressed, and wrote a letter to the house, which, though it occasioned some debate, obtained no resolution in favour of the prisoner.

From Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale

"There is one strange fact about this," said the governor of the prison to Harkaway, "and that is, that one of the prisoners has taken the liberty of respiting himself."

From Jack Harkaway and His Son's Escape from the Brigand's of Greece by Bracebridge Hemyng

Then they made a last attempt in his favor, and voted for respiting the execution.

From Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

By this simple sentence a flood of light is thrown on the fact of respiting him alone amongst the four men admittedly concerned in the rescue.

From The Dock and the Scaffold by Unknown

The respiting of the burning of the hand till the king's pardon could be obtained was not to put him in a worse condition than he would have been in had he been actually burnt.

From State Trials Vol. 2 (of 2) Political and Social by Various

Then they made a last attempt in his favour, and voted for respiting the execution.

From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay