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A pause dressed up in a lab coat, pretending it's permanent rather than just procrastinating.
means A gap or break in something that's expected to resume, like a show, a career, or a sentence.
from From Latin hiatus, an opening or gap, from hiare, to gape or yawn — same root as the mouth that won't stop.
Anatomy tooBody openings are literally called hiatuses, like the diaphragm's.
Band codeOn hiatus often means quietly never coming back.
Grammar gapTwo adjacent vowels in different syllables form a hiatus.