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- noun The
period ortime between two events;interim ;meantime ;meanwhile .
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Examples
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Which left the question: On this day of between-time, when she could move around anonymous and undetected, when for at least a few more hours everyone who knew her expected her to be half a world away, what did Piper want to do?
The Half Life Jennifer Weiner 2010
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Which left the question: On this day of between-time, when she could move around anonymous and undetected, when for at least a few more hours everyone who knew her expected her to be half a world away, what did Piper want to do?
The Half Life Jennifer Weiner 2010
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Which left the question: On this day of between-time, when she could move around anonymous and undetected, when for at least a few more hours everyone who knew her expected her to be half a world away, what did Piper want to do?
The Half Life Jennifer Weiner 2010
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Which left the question: On this day of between-time, when she could move around anonymous and undetected, when for at least a few more hours everyone who knew her expected her to be half a world away, what did Piper want to do?
The Half Life Jennifer Weiner 2010
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Stuck in that between-time, between boy and man, between high school and college, and positively heartbroken, he goes on a road trip with his best (and only) friend, the blunt and unabashed Hassan.
slayground: An Abundance of Katherines by John Green Little Willow 2006
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Kirby's science wasn't accurate at all, however, but didn't need to be-- the series existed in some mythological between-time he called the X-Age later revivals have transplanted Devil and Moon Boy to the Savage Land.
365 Reasons to Love Comics #350 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2007
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Let me tell you briefly what had happened in the between-time.
The Iron Pirate A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea Max Pemberton 1906
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It's a good thing swatching fills that between-time nicely.
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"It does beat me how soon night comes out here," she said; "back in York State we had a little between-time.
A Theft Condoned 1891
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