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Break-up fees that acquirers agree to pay their targets if their deal gets shot down by antitrust regulators are also on the rise.

From Reuters • Dec. 27, 2022

Q. Break-up 101: I found out some unsavory things about my roommate around September of last year from a mutual friend.

From Slate • May 10, 2016

Break-up songs aren't really break-up songs, because they're still bursting with affection.

From The Verge • Mar. 26, 2016

Break-up anthem … In the Air Tonight Raised in Hounslow by an insurance man and a theatrical agent, Collins was a child actor before joining Genesis in 1970 at the age of 19.

From The Guardian • Feb. 11, 2016

Theodore Maynard, now lecturing before the women's clubs upon the "Imminent Break-up of Civilization," defines civilization as that condition of a people founded upon justice and honor.

From Heart and Soul by Maveric Post by Mapes, Victor