commercial break

noun

1. a short interruption during radio or television programming for the broadcasting of a commercial or commercials.

commercial break

noun

1. an interruption in a radio or television programme for the broadcasting of advertisements

Example Sentences

If you miss it, it’s OK, because the writing is such that the storyline gets reintroduced after every commercial break.

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Just ahead of that story, before the first commercial break, would be a report about the Pentagon’s independent watchdog, which apparently received evidence that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Signal account message previewing a U.S. bombing campaign in Yemen included classified information from an email labeled “SECRET/NOFORN.”

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Following one commercial break, Saralegui and Karol G watched archival video of Selena’s interview with the TV personality in which the “Como la Flor” singer famously slipped up and used the word “diez y cuatro” instead of “catorce,” to say 14 in Spanish.

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In fact, she said that during the commercial break before the award was announced, she whispered to her manager, “I think it’s going to Mikey.”

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During a commercial break, heart racing and brain foggy, Fadal went to lie down on the women’s bathroom floor and didn’t return to the anchor desk.

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