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- noun Plural form of
pause . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
pause .
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Examples
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They were oblivious of his presence, either flushed and absorbed with the passion of their music, or wiping their foreheads and chatting and laughing companionably in pauses to rest.
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"It was just what the coaches were calling for and Keiland was the man" - Torain pauses and laughs - "for the plan."
For Ryan Torain, the name of the game is performance Tracee Hamilton 2010
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Barack's thinking out loud with long awkward pauses is difficult to listen to! wen
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He looks back at the girl ... looks again ... pauses ... looks back at the girl and says "you have a reservation?"
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Presidential hopeful and U.S. Senator John McCain pauses as he speaks during a town hall meeting in Des Moines. swapContent ( 'firstMainStoryPhoto', 'applyMainStoryPhoto');
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They were oblivious of his presence, either flushed and absorbed with the passion of their music, or wiping their foreheads and chatting and laughing companionably in pauses to rest.
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I always seem to myself to have rested far more than I have worked; and I do really believe that I have some exceptional faculty of accumulating young feelings in short pauses, which obliterates a quantity of wear and tear.
The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2 (of 3), 1857-1870 Charles Dickens 1841
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He was diagnosed with sleep apnea, which is characterized by pauses in breathing during sleep and can be weight-related, and he was given a breathing machine.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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This led to long-term pauses in arms control and resumption of confrontation.
RIA Novosti 2010
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Christopher Walken used to be a professional dance, and the reason that he makes all those strange pauses, is because he’s trying to find the "rhythm" of his character.
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