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interregnum

[in-ter-reg-nuhm] / ˌɪn tərˈrɛg nəm /


NOUN
coalition government
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After Epshteyn put in a good word for him, Trump’s team brought Blanche on to fight multiple prosecutions spanning from New York to Florida during the interregnum.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 16, 2026

While he was at the Center for Renewing America, the think tank he founded during his private sector interregnum, Vought indicated a few concrete ways he could push his vision.

From Slate Feb. 24, 2025

If we’re being truly rational, the period from the time you surrender your keys to the moment you collect your vehicle should be an interregnum that fills the heart with dread.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 11, 2023

I visited Baghdad in May 2013 during the interregnum between the two American campaigns in Iraq, to attend an international conference.

From Salon Mar. 10, 2023

While blacks did win the right to vote when the Republican Party came to power three years later, and even served in various offices, the interregnum lasted less than a decade.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

For who wants a lawyer when there are so many interregna?

From The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order by Evelyn S. Shuckburgh

For the remaining 80 the most disputable elements are the 71 years of interregna or of foreign dominations, and the 70 of the minor judges.

From Prolegomena by Julius Wellhausen

For my own part, I prefer to retain the interregna; they alone, so far as we can see at present, being appropriate to the peculiar scheme of the Book of Judges.

From Prolegomena by Julius Wellhausen

These disturbances usually account for the interregna which are so often found between the reigns of successive sovereigns.

From Japan by David Murray

Private-sector stints were mere interregnums between political races and appointments, and every position of authority was a perch for aggressive bullying and showboating.

From Slate Nov. 4, 2025

Monarchies have always understood the importance of avoiding interregnums: the king is dead, long live the king!

From Economist Nov. 27, 2014

One who almost certainly could is Jean Cardinal Villot, the Camerlengo for both the papal interregnums.

From Time Magazine Archive

In these interregnums of order, Tlacaelel explained, the topmost brother linked himself to the sun, on which all living creatures depend.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

The interregnums are, however, of very short duration.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge




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