break up
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On Thursday, it was set to try dropping dry ice over parts of South Sumatra to "break up the smoke", according to chief security minister Dudung Abdurachman.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
Powerful winds break up the ice cover, causing individual floes to move, drift, and collide with one another.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
The solution to all this isn’t to break up the companies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Blown away in a 26-minute opening set, fourth seed Gauff was twice pegged back from a break up in a scrappy second set before coming through a 16-point tie-break to force a decider.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
I once had to break up a shoving match at a senior citizens’ picnic on the North Side.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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