break open
Example Sentences
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The novel partnership between students and police to break open a decades-old murder case, with a love triangle at its center, was irresistible fodder for the media’s true-crime boom.
From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026
Others might be too wary of its potential value as a collectible to break open the packaging to the token itself, which carries instructions on how to access the online Remorse Portal to save Angus.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026
“The world itself is loud and overwhelming,” Kittelmann said, noting that meaning emerges when familiar connections break open, allowing attention to shift to the gaps between.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026
"Andrea Terceros, a postdoc in my lab, created an elegant behavioral model allowed us to break open this problem in a new way," Rajasethupathy says.
From Science Daily • Nov. 30, 2025
“Life...is a chemical incident,” Paul Ehrlich, the chemist, had once said, and biochemists, true to form, had begun to break open cells and characterize the constituent “living chemicals” into classes and functions.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
