How to close a subsession and resume the main session?

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The discussion focuses on closing a subsession and resuming the main session in Wolfram Language during long calculations. Users can interrupt evaluations via the Evaluation menu, which opens a dialog box for subsession management. To exit the dialog and return to the main session, the command Return[] is used. If a specific expression is needed, Return[expr] can be employed to return a value from the dialog, clarifying the relationship between the front-end menu and the Dialog[] function.

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Ending a subsession in Mathematica
While running a long calculation in a cell, you can do Evaluation > Interrupt Evaluation. A dialog box appears, offering the option of starting a subsession.

But it's not clear how to close the subsession and resume the original calculation. I couldn't find anything on the net.
 
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From https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Dialog.html:
  • You can exit a dialog using Return[].
  • If you exit with Return[expr], then expr is the value returned by the Dialog function. Otherwise, the value returned is the expression on the last output line in the dialog.
 
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Nice !
I would never have made the connection. It doesn't seem obvious what a front end menu UI dialog box has to do with the Dialog[ ] thing.
 

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