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Recent Examples of breaker
Another deal breaker for new graduates is a stagnant workplace.
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Rachel Barber, USA Today, 22 Apr. 2025
Meanwhile, fashion rule breakers Charli XCX and Troye Sivan have contributed to the rise of micro shorts, with denim options up 42 percent versus Q1 2024.
—Andre Claudio, Sourcing Journal, 14 Apr. 2025
But for the businesses and the restaurants along the Gulf of Mexico that were ravaged by Hurricanes Helene and Milton last year, welcoming spring breakers — and anyone else, really — has been imperative.
—Emily Cochrane, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
These men, barely out of childhood, could be spring breakers if not for the fatigues and rifles.
—Thomas Page, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2025
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Rachel Barber, USA Today, 22 Apr. 2025
Meanwhile, fashion rule breakers Charli XCX and Troye Sivan have contributed to the rise of micro shorts, with denim options up 42 percent versus Q1 2024.
—Andre Claudio, Sourcing Journal, 14 Apr. 2025
But for the businesses and the restaurants along the Gulf of Mexico that were ravaged by Hurricanes Helene and Milton last year, welcoming spring breakers — and anyone else, really — has been imperative.
—Emily Cochrane, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
These men, barely out of childhood, could be spring breakers if not for the fatigues and rifles.
—Thomas Page, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for breaker
Noun
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Entrepreneurs need to quickly adapt to surf through disruptions and reorient their companies to new opportunities.—
Maya Joelson,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2025
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Blasts of wind, rolling surf, fissuring earth: these elemental threats appear and disappear like signs from the heavens, harbingers of the end times.—
Stephanie Bunbury,
Deadline,
19 May 2025
Noun
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In the scope was one of the many tiny fish bones that were found that day, probably belonging to a small comber or a wrasse.—
Paul Greenberg,
Smithsonian Magazine,
21 Dec. 2022
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The destructive combers continued to undermine dwellings near the water’s edge at West Newport Beach.—
Scott Harrison,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Sep. 2019
Noun
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According to Muth, silk preserves curls and hairstyles, while reducing frizz, tangles, and bedhead.—
India Espy-Jones,
Essence,
23 May 2025
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On the surface, the artist’s swirls, curls and modular shapes hit the eye with playful abandon.—
R. Daniel Foster,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
Noun
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The bill sailed through the House but immediately hit whitecaps in the Senate as prominent LGBTQ+ advocacy groups raised murky legal concerns about the proposal, throwing it into limbo.—
Seth Klamann,
Denver Post,
28 Apr. 2025
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Top looks out on the Tagus River, choppy and windy today, whitecaps blowing on the water like bumps on snakeskin.—
Dana Vachon,
Air Mail,
26 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The resulting waves would be on the order of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that killed more than 50,000 people.—
Elizabeth Weise,
USA Today,
25 May 2025
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The incidents come as part of what The Internet & Television Association, an industry lobbying group, said was a wave of vandalism to network infrastructure across the country.—
Maddie Carr,
Kansas City Star,
24 May 2025
Noun
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And unlike some of the other options above, Jackson isn't just a threat as a roller out of ball screens.—
Ricardo Klein,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 May 2025
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So, go ride a bicycle, do handstands, do cartwheels, go skateboarding, go roller skating.—
Brie Stimson , Larry Fink,
FOXNews.com,
25 May 2025
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“Breaker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/breaker. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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