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After the declines in Intel and other AI-tied shares—which sent the Nasdaq Composite Index to its worst month in more than a year—fund investors have had no respite so far in November.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 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

This can last for years, even decades, and despite hopeful moments of decency and respite from perceived indifference, bad actors will show you who they are time and again, if you let them.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

We walked for hours through the country; our Regiment stopping only once, that those of us with shoes might lend them to such of those as marched without, and thus give them some respite.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

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

In a movie that starts at fever pitch and rarely relents, these grisly interludes, captured by Larry Smith’s glowering camera, offer strangely haunting respites from the plot’s general chaos.

From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2023

During one of these respites, Diana drew Lyddie to the nearest window.

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson

At his trial he pleaded guilty; but he was respited, and afterwards pardoned.

From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. by Mrs. Thomson

Powell respited the prisoner that the pleasure of the Lieutenant Governor might be known.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 by Various

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

I concluded that the father had already fed the little brutes, and that I was to be respited for an hour or two, perhaps half a day.

From Chatterbox, 1906 by J. Erskine (John Erskine) Clarke

Bradford, the fifth, was respited, in the hope that the example might tell upon him.

From The Reign of Mary Tudor by Ernest Rhys

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

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

"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 favour, and voted for respiting the execution.

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

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