take a breather
Example Sentences
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“The first step is for me to kind of take a breather after the pace that I’ve been running for seven years,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026
Some traders might just be using the last few weeks of the year to take a breather, Hill said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
After three years of outsize returns—roughly 25% in both 2023 and 2024, and nearly 20% in 2025—the S&P 500 could take a breather.
From Barron's • Dec. 12, 2025
He said valuations for certain areas of the AI sector "needed to take a breather, but Nvidia is not in that camp".
From BBC • Nov. 19, 2025
What does exist is the paragraph break: a visual bookmark that allows the reader to pause, take a breather, assimilate what he has read, and then find his place again on the page.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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