breaker
Example Sentences
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“He would hurl himself straight as an arrow right into the great roaring grey wall of an oncoming breaker and go clean through it as if it had neither weight nor momentum.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026
If return-to-office mandates are a deal breaker, Choudhury said you don’t have to be limited to domestic employers in your job hunt.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 9, 2026
If you have to evacuate, you should disconnect all electrical appliances or turn off electric circuits at the fuse box or circuit breaker panel.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025
They campaign for a short "circuit breaker" lockdown to try to drive down infections.
From BBC • Nov. 19, 2025
When messages were lined up properly, and a code breaker made enough good guesses, German words would eventually appear.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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Earth Science - Middle School
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Earth Science - High School
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