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- noun Plural form of
interregnum .
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Examples
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Another question: If we cut the interregnums between election and taking office to, say, a week or two, does that mean every recount requires that seat to be vacant for months?
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Having just emerged from a bruising, exhausting two-year struggle to write and ratify the American charter, Madison thought repeating this task would create "pernicious factions" that would repeatedly deadlock, leaving the nation with no government at all during such "interregnums."
Wall Street Protesters Channel Thomas Jefferson Thomas Fleming 2011
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The neo-conservative is willing to leave those problems to be coped with by liberal interregnums.
Winner-Take-All Politics Jacob S. Hacker 2010
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The neo-conservative is willing to leave those problems to be coped with by liberal interregnums.
Winner-Take-All Politics Jacob S. Hacker 2010
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The neo-conservative is willing to leave those problems to be coped with by liberal interregnums.
Winner-Take-All Politics Jacob S. Hacker 2010
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The first is Chaos -- which could be a temporary state of affairs, as often occurs in global interregnums, or something more enduring.
Paul Starobin: Five Roads to the Future -- Whose Century Will This Be? 2010
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The neo-conservative is willing to leave those problems to be coped with by liberal interregnums.
Winner-Take-All Politics Jacob S. Hacker 2010
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The economy did very poorly in the long interregnums of early 1921 and early 1933, when no one was in charge.
What Caused the Panic?, David Henderson | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Fortunately for me, I was in during one of the short interregnums: between Korea and Vietnam.
The Volokh Conspiracy » They Made a Multilateralism and Called It Peace 2009
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If America is prone to great awakenings, it is in part because of more spiritually sleepy interregnums during which science and philosophy - not to mention secularists and even the occasional atheist - manage to have a say.
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