interregnum

Example Sentences

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"I feel deeply conflicted. I quite enjoy this period when we're editing - where the whole season is there but we haven't put it out yet. I like the interregnum," he said.

From BBC

Under the British constitution, a sovereign succeeds to the throne the moment his or her predecessor dies, before even being proclaimed to the people, and there is no interregnum.

From Reuters

They took a break to chat about the odd purgatory of their current lives, a strange interregnum that is evolving into something more permanent.

From New York Times

“Many histories of this important interregnum period have been written,” our reviewer, David S. Reynolds, noted, “but none emphasizes the fragility of the American experiment as strongly as Taylor’s book does.”

From New York Times

In that horrid interregnum, abortion on request was authorized by direct order of Adolf Hitler, who despised the Polish “untermenschen” — or those considered racially or socially inferior — and wanted Poles to have fewer children.

From Washington Post