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  • verb Present participle of unpause.
  • adjective That does not pause; ceaseless, pauseless.

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Examples

  • Rather than pausing, looking at a few moves, and then unpausing, players can keep the command list as a half-screen window at the top of the battlefield, scrolling through the moves with the Z1 and Z2 buttons on the classic controller and actually play through the selected mode with the commands on-screen.

    Tatsunoko Vs Capcom | CurveHouse.com 2010

  • August 30, 2007 at 2: 42 pm pause/break key is useful in a lot of games for … you guessed it … pausing and unpausing the game.

    Want to know a cool Windows secret? | Sync Blog 2007

  • Life was happening all around me, unpausing and constant.

    Renegade's Magic Hobb, Robin 2008

  • I discovered long ago that listening to an audiobook cures my insomnia, because I can use the unpausing words of the book to supplant the freewheeling thoughts of my own that would keep me awake.

    The Smarties tube, an escaped lion, and the relationship between insomnia and my preference for audio novels, two of which are recommended here. Ann Althouse 2005

  • On calm days he would hear the snorting throb of the screw, and feel the swift flight of the ship, bearing him on in its unpausing, regular, exasperating race.

    Pierre And Jean 2003

  • With his stick half lifted to strike her, he paused - the stalker, unpausing, had commenced to climb down the unlit side of the hill.

    HOTHOUSE Aldiss, Brian 1962

  • From the moment when the wandering English youth who tells the tale wakes on the hillside to find himself contemplated by a lovely maiden and a gigantic wolf-hound, the adventure dashes from thrill to thrill unpausing.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 24, 1917 Various

  • He may pray his hour, unpausing, and no one thinks it long; for, indeed, at prayer-meetings four persons will sometimes pray an hour each, -- one with confession, one with private petitions, a third with petitions for church and kingdom, and a fourth with thanksgiving, -- neither part of the quartette being for an instant confused with the other.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Various

  • Whereupon, unpausing, he ran back to me, only just in time to rescue me from the nearer thunder yet of those who had seized the very acme of their opportunity to beat out my brains.

    Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance Walter De la Mare 1914

  • And this because they had the illusion of a rest to be gained at some later point of this unpausing life.

    The Children Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell 1884

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