respite

But if AI investors were hoping for respite, they may have picked the wrong week.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026

They lean casually against the trailers, finding respite in the shade, and line up at the catering tent, which is still serving breakfast.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

Even Cunha's sending off soon after, which ensured a nervy ending, would not deny United a first win in 10, bringing some respite after a dreadful few weeks.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

Families in Kyiv turn to medicine to get some respite from the stress mounting each year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

The only respite is lunch, where Finn has his two best friends, Ralph and Dylan.

From "Every Day" by David Levithan

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

It was a break from the everyday grind, and such respites feel few and far between these days.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2024

Even for malaria the respites may be transient.

From Science Magazine ● Sep. 25, 2023

But these respites only emphasize a pervasive sense of confinement.

From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2022

She knew she was heading somewhere for another of her brief respites from Orlando’s paperness.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green

In vain was the power of his dynasty overthrown by the Crusaders; in vain do the Seljukians disappear from the annals of the world; in vain is Constantinople respited; in vain is Europe saved.

From Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity by John Henry Newman

He pleaded benefit of clergy, and was respited, and instead of his original sentence was burnt in the hand.

From Curious Punishments of Bygone Days by Alice Morse Earle

He has not been forgiven; he has only been respited.

From The Parables of Our Lord by William Arnot

An hour later the crowd returned grumbling; they were disappointed that the beautiful criminal had been respited.

From Timar's Two Worlds by Mór Jókai

For a whole century God has respited mankind, that it might acknowledge the Founder of such a Revelation, espouse His Cause, proclaim His greatness, and establish His Order.

From The Promised Day Is Come by Shoghi Effendi

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

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

"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

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