break down
Example Sentences
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While national crime data does not break down rates by victims' nationality, the number of crimes against Nepali nationals rose sharply in 2024, outpacing the roughly 50-percent growth of its diaspora in Croatia.
From Barron's
"Framing the target as an intention, rather than a commitment, reduces the risk of the deal later breaking down," Shivaan Tandon of Capital Economics said in a note on Friday.
From Barron's
The authors also broke down the results by quartiles within the top 100 stocks.
From Barron's
His mother, Shefali Rani Das, breaks down as soon as visitors enter.
From BBC
But that moment of maximal British-American political parallel was also, as it happens, the moment when the parallel began to break down.
From Salon
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