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also hiccough
as in discontinuity
a break in continuity
the business has grown steadily for 14 years, with only a few minor hiccups
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Recent Examples of hiccup
Unlike some competitors, though, Alienware’s G-Sync and FreeSync Premium Pro screen only offers DisplayPort 1.4 rather than DisplayPort 2.1, which could theoretically mean dealing with the occasional Display Stream Compression (DSC) hiccup to get your 4K at 240Hz.
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Sean Hollister, The Verge, 7 Jan. 2025
The only hiccup – one of the flight attendants was allergic to dogs, requiring her to switch duties with a colleague.
—Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
With over 700,000 workers at around 1,000 warehouses scattered around the U.S., a strike is unlikely to cripple Amazon’s operations, but such a walkout in the final few days before Christmas could create supply chain hiccups and send a signal that the Teamsters intend to inflict financial harm.
—Greg Bensinger, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2024
Despite that hiccup, the star-laden pitch went on to wow the audience and set the stage for an upfront ad haul in excess of the tech giant’s internal forecast for $1.8 billion.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 6 Jan. 2025
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Sean Hollister, The Verge, 7 Jan. 2025
The only hiccup – one of the flight attendants was allergic to dogs, requiring her to switch duties with a colleague.
—Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
With over 700,000 workers at around 1,000 warehouses scattered around the U.S., a strike is unlikely to cripple Amazon’s operations, but such a walkout in the final few days before Christmas could create supply chain hiccups and send a signal that the Teamsters intend to inflict financial harm.
—Greg Bensinger, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2024
Despite that hiccup, the star-laden pitch went on to wow the audience and set the stage for an upfront ad haul in excess of the tech giant’s internal forecast for $1.8 billion.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 6 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hiccup
Noun
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This border or discontinuity is an average of 3–6 miles beneath the ocean floor and 10–60 miles beneath the continents.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
29 Nov. 2024
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If our civilization suffers some kind of severe discontinuity, future archaeologists may need to dig this place up to get a hint as to how things went so wrong.—
Ross Andersen,
The Atlantic,
24 Oct. 2024
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There’s a lag before those wholesale price hikes show up in the grocery store, says Karyn Rispoli, a managing editor at Expana.—
Laurent Belsie,
The Christian Science Monitor,
22 Jan. 2025
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Because of a six-month lag in the way that 340B discounts work, clinics were hit by the change last July.—
Katie Thomas,
New York Times,
16 Jan. 2025
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This discrepancy is due in part to significantly lower lifetime earnings, as well as potential factors like career interruptions for caregiving or a tendency and/or need for some to prioritize family needs over personal savings.—
Paula Thielen,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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The site indicated the interruptions had been occurring since at least 9 a.m. ET.—
Rob Wile,
NBC News,
15 Jan. 2025
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“Hiccup.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hiccup. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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