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breakaway

noun as in secession

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Australia trailed by only three points at the break after wing Harry Potter's breakaway try had given them a lifeline back into the contest.

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Moscow recognises the breakaway Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent, while most of the world recognises them as Georgian territory.

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His outburst began with that breakaway early in the third quarter, as Miller slipped through a hole and took off, stutter-stepping his way past one Michigan defender and into the open field.

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Since 2017, those seeking to create a breakaway state have been fighting government forces.

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The former Scottish Premier League football chief is now an investor in, and board member of, rugby union's proposed breakaway R360 league.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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