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But Ibrahim Sadiq, who has been strongly linked with a move to AZ Alkmaar, scored twice before the break silence a boisterous Pittodrie.

From BBC • Aug. 31, 2023

It may be unpopular, even in some religious circles, to break silence in the interest of justice, but we must speak.

From Washington Post • Sep. 10, 2021

To break silence is a transgression, of sorts, of the uneasy cease-fire that settles over people who were once intimate.

From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2019

Eventually, Harry Truman will break silence and exhort the Democrats to draft Ike as a great gesture of "nonpartisan Americanism."

From Time Magazine Archive

The princess was the first to break silence.

From Artist and Model (The Divorced Princess) by Pont-Jest, Ren? de