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How to pronounce “recess”

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Pronunciation guide for recess

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of recess with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: An NBA Champion’s Advice on Being a Top TeammateBut during the chaotic beauty of playground time on recess
Definition summary: (countable) A depressed, hollow, or indented space; also, a hole or opening.

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An NBA Champion’s Advice on Being a Top Teammate

But during the chaotic beauty of playground time on recess

[Noun]
(countable) A depressed, hollow, or indented space; also, a hole or opening.
(countable) A hidden, innermost, or inaccessible place or part of a place.
(countable) A temporary stoppage of an activity; a break, a pause.
(countable, archaic) An act of retiring or withdrawing; a moving back.
(countable, historical) A decree or resolution of the diet of the Holy Roman Empire or the Hanseatic League.
(obsolete)
(countable, geology) An overall-concave, reentrant section of a sinuous fold and thrust belt, thrust sheet, or a single thrust fault, caused by one or more of: deformation (folding and faulting) of strata and geologic structures during orogenesis, differences in the angle of critical taper during orogenesis, or differing erosional level of the present geomorphological surface.
[Adjective]
(obsolete, rare) Of a place or time: distant, remote.
[Verb]
(transitive)
(intransitive, chiefly US, government)

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