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hiatus

[hahy-ay-tuhs] / haɪˈeɪ təs /


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When it resumed voyages to Svalbard in June last year after a long hiatus, it enabled direct passage from Murmansk in Russia’s High North.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

After a five-year hiatus, "A Court of Splintered Harmony" will reunite author Sarah J. Maas's passionate fan base for the midnight release of the sixth book in her genre-defining series.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

In 2022, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, George Desdunes’ fraternity, was reinstated at Cornell after an 11-year hiatus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

On the night she took ill, Sandra thought she had indigestion because of her "hiatus hernia" - a condition common in the over-50s, where part of the stomach moves up towards the stomach.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Bessie supplied the hiatus by a homily of an hour’s length, in which she proved beyond a doubt that I was the most wicked and abandoned child ever reared under a roof.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

These micro-retreats have proven so energizing that I now take a few each year—and science suggests such hiatuses, despite their brief duration, can renew enthusiasm and relieve mental exhaustion in potent ways.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026

Both bands have been around since the early noughties and have had their fair share of break-ups, reunions, hiatuses and comebacks over the years.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2024

And unlike other shows, the cast spent multiple hiatuses on national concert tours.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2023

Bands that had been waiting to release new albums until they could realistically envision touring them are now tentatively re-emerging from extended hiatuses.

From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 2021

They also speak shortly of the Emperor Muh's expedition, and thus they also are useful for comparing hiatuses, names, faults, and dates; both in general history, and in the account of King Muh's expedition.

From Ancient China Simplified by Edward Harper Parker


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