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How to pronounce hiatus in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms abatement, reprieve, respite, suspension
Type of break, interruption
Has types defervescence, remission, remittal, subsidence
Type Words
Synonyms foramen
Type of gap, opening
Has types interventricular foramen, foramen of monro, foramen magnum, monro's foramen
Type Words
Type of piece

Examples of hiatus

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That's also why Vinexpo organizers plan to return to the US after a long hiatus.
From the independent.co.uk
After a two-year hiatus, the Hurricanes returned to The Associated Press Top 25.
From the orlandosentinel.com
School officials said they have been told that the hiatus might stretch to 2011.
From the washingtonpost.com
The aging Aussie leads despite a three-year hiatus from major championship golf.
From the washingtontimes.com
In a way he's already hedging bets, calling it more of a hiatus than retirement.
From the lohud.com
Barack Obama deserves credit for insisting that a gas-tax hiatus would be wrong.
From the washingtonpost.com
The Mark Morris Dance Group makes a welcome return to GMU after a year's hiatus.
From the washingtonpost.com
One way or another, it seems likely that Nickel Creek's hiatus will someday end.
From the newsobserver.com
But she adores her job and missed it something awful during the 14-month hiatus.
From the sacbee.com
More examples
  • Suspension: an interruption in the intensity or amount of something
  • A missing piece (as a gap in a manuscript)
  • Foramen: a natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure
  • "Hiatus" is the twenty-first and season finale episode of NBC's first season of 30 Rock. It was written by series creator and executive producer Tina Fey, and was directed by Don Scardino. It first aired on April 26, 2007 in the United States. ...
  • In anatomy, a hiatus is a natural fissure in a structure.
  • Hiatus was a crust punk band from Belgium.
  • In phonology, hiatus ("yawning") refers to two vowel sounds occurring in adjacent syllables, with no intervening consonant. When two adjacent vowel sounds occur in the same syllable, the result is instead described as a diphthong.
  • The following is a list of episodes of the television series NCIS. The program and its characters were introduced in a two-part episode of the CBS television series JAG in April 2003. The show premiered on September 23, 2003 in the United States on CBS. ...
  • In television scheduling, a hiatus refers to a break of at least several weeks in the normal schedule of a television program. ...