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How to use the word PAUSE in a Sentence?

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Poetry often encourages readers to pause and contemplate the human condition, morality, and the world around them. It prompts introspection and deep thinking, fostering intellectual and emotional growth.

Oscar Auliq-Ice

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6 months ago

We’ve had this weird pause over the last three weeks where analysts haven’t been updating earnings estimates because of the banking turmoil. Those are undoubtedly going to come, there’s currently a false sense of security that things won’t change, but a lot of the data under the surface is probably pointing towards higher odds of recession. This is not a favorable starting point for stocks as we think about the next few months.

Patrick Kaser

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s also one of the best ways to pause — to break up or revive energy from a spiraling, unproductive mindset.

Jessica Honig

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think there are core Trump voters that this galvanizes, i think that there is a much broader group of Republican/conservative voters that this may give enough pause to, to then say, ‘I’m going to at least look at everybody else in the field.’.

Dave Wilson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

At some point we are all compelled to take pause and reflect on the reality that unsubstantiated, temporally aged, and concurrent use of social media to incite a ‘Me Too’ call-to-arms runs afoul of every constitutional safeguard we have always held so dear. Superimposing today’s mores on erroneous recitals of acts of yesteryear is a recipe for disaster for both the accused and the accuser.

Jennifer Shahade

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I mean, it’s really whether time is on the side of Russia, who is losing but has a lot of resources to deplete us in the West. That’s what gives me pause. I hope we have the staying power.

White House

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The fact is that we are fighting with time, right? i mean, it’s really whether time is on the side of Russia, who is losing but has a lot of resources to deplete us in the West. That’s what gives me pause. I hope we have the staying power.

Michal Baranowski

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Mr Adani has other things to deal with now, it’s just good sense to pause things while the audit goes forward.

Patrick Pouyanne

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was announced, nothing was signed. It doesn’t exist, mr Adani has other things to deal with now, it’s just good sense to pause things while the audit goes forward.

Patrick Pouyanne

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There was a lot to do that I felt like I could put a pause button on my location. I’ll probably be sleeping in my office the first couple of months until I get better oriented with the city.

De La Cruz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Inflation Reduction Act saves maybe $ 300 billion dollars in the first 10 years. If we cancel $ 10,000 of debt and just extend the pause a few months, we're going to be at about that much in terms of new cost, all the deficit reduction will be wiped out. At the same time, we're probably going to do more to increase inflation from debt cancellation than any inflation reduction from The Inflation Reduction Act.

Kent Smetters

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This means getting rates well into restrictive territory, and quickly, should signs of more embedded inflation emerge, we think Bank Rate of 6-7 % will be required to bring inflation dynamics under control. For now though, we continue to think evidence for such effects are limited with increases in unemployment still more likely to allow the MPC to pause around the turn of the year.

Benjamin Nabarro

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think our assessment is that the Russians will increasingly find it difficult to supply manpower material over the next few weeks, they will have to pause some way and that will give the Ukrainians opportunities to strike back.

Richard Moore

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The threat to any rights is a threat to all human rights, and at this time, Courtney and I are going to take a pause from our broadcast to show our love and support for our friends, our families and our colleagues.

Carolyn Peck

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Now that I am going in to the office, I have to go buy new makeup sets -- so I am spending money there when I wasn't before, the things you used to spend money on, like hair cuts, makeup, manicure and pedicures and updating your wardrobe, those things were essentially on pause for two years. Yes, I was spending it before... I got so used to not spending that it was really nice. And now everything is more expensive.

Yau McClay

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I'm sorry to say it has become crystal clear that the' pause' is in fact a' ban,'.

Joe Manchin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Every day, it gets worse, there's been no pause in the bombing -- it started weeks ago -- by the Russians. The dead are buried in the central park.

Max Strelnyk

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Every day, it gets worse, there's been no pause in the bombing -- it started weeks ago -- by the Russians. Although Russia claims that they will decrease military operations in the Kyiv and Chernihiv oblasts, Izium and the greater Kharkiv region will have no such luck.

Max Strelnyk

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There's been no pause in the bombing -- it started weeks ago -- by the Russians. Although Russia claims that they will decrease military operations in the Kyiv and Chernihiv oblasts, Izium and the greater Kharkiv region will have no such luck.

Max Strelnyk

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Increased volatility in the markets and uncertainties surrounding geopolitical crises, oil prices, inflation and supply chain disruption could negatively impact companies' profits and growth trajectory, as a result, we're seeing a pause as companies navigate these conditions.

Rachel Gerring

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I’m not so sure there were pauses. … I didn’t really address or look for reasons to take a pause. I wish I would have at some point in my career. There were definitely times I should’ve taken a pause and come back a better person. But nowadays, with the mental part of sports, I think everybody is just so infatuated with winning and being successful, i think sometimes when you fail at sports, that’s a success. But some people just need to take a step back, take a pause and look at those different avenues in sports.

Getty Images

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Not on my own with the director, as one would anticipate, given the situation that has given us all pause, so to speak, but with a room full of agents and lawyers, most of whom had nothing to do with the project, that was how I saw my vagina-shot for the first time, long after I’d been told, 'We can’t see anything – I just need you to remove your panties, as the white is reflecting the light, so we know you have panties on.'.

Sharon Stone

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

As the world reacts to developments in Ukraine, the uncertainty will likely mean a pause in the recent pace of [ interest rate ] increases.

Danielle Hale

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The Fed will only pause if inflation data cools this summer, it can't afford to look political. It will remain loyal to the data. That's a blessing and a curse.

Judith Lu

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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