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break with

verb as in part ways

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Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf and their contemporaries produced wildly different books with one thing in common: the belief that writers needed to break with the old.

Yet it was Kurosawa’s momentous break with Mifune following the filming of “Red Beard” in the mid-1960s that later led to Mr. Nakadai being offered leading roles by the great director.

The move would signal a break with key pledges made ahead of the 2024 election while expanding the government’s margin for error, or headroom, as it seeks to meet self-imposed fiscal rules.

He later voted against the overall continuing resolution package, breaking with most of his Republican colleagues.

Eisman turned out to have a special talent for making noise and breaking with consensus opinion.

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