breaker
Example Sentences
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“He would hurl himself straight as an arrow right into the great roaring grey wall of an oncoming breaker and go clean through it as if it had neither weight nor momentum.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026
Khachanov then raced into a 6-1 lead in the breaker before finally converting set-point at the third time of asking.
From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026
If return-to-office mandates are a deal breaker, Choudhury said you don’t have to be limited to domestic employers in your job hunt.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 9, 2026
If you have to evacuate, you should disconnect all electrical appliances or turn off electric circuits at the fuse box or circuit breaker panel.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025
A woman with great gifts in math, music, and languages, Meyer had worked as a Navy code breaker since 1918, and in the early 1920s she was creating new codes for them.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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Earth Science - Middle School
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