break out
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Ronaldo also scored on Friday when making his return to club football, having left the Portugal national team camp halfway through the Nations League break out of frustration at limited playing opportunities.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
He notes that when OpenAI agents conspired to break out of their testing “sandbox” and hacked into the machine-learning platform Hugging Face, it set “off a firestorm in American politics and global politics.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Year: 2011 Compiled by: David Robert Mitchell Of note: Commissioned to commemorate Mitchell’s debut feature film, The Myth of the American Sleepover, years before he would really break out with It Follows.
From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2026
If I err, and I do, my legs sometimes itch so fiercely they feel on fire and I break out in hives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
The first to break out of the cloud on the far side of the lake would have the advantage, and that might mean survival, or it might mean a successful kill.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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