interval
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In a study published in the journal Nature, Virginia Tech geobiologist Shuhai Xiao and his collaborators describe a 550 million-year-old sea sponge fossil that falls squarely within this missing interval.
From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026
Smartphones “have made it possible to fill in, immediately, an interval of emptiness.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
Manchester City demolished Liverpool in an 18-minute period which spanned the half-time break, scoring twice either side of the interval following an evenly matched opening half an hour.
From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026
It was one of the largest falls over such a short interval in over 40 years, UBS noted.
From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026
After an interval Roy Baty said, “I’ll finish wiring up the alarm.”
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
Vocabulary lists containing interval
Ides, Eon, Epoch, and Era: Time-related Words
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Unit 1: Telling Details
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