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breaking out

verb as in happen, emerge

verb as in escape

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The two days that we spent in New York with a giant dry erase board breaking out the year were really fun.

The audience clearly sided with Whoopi, breaking out into thunderous applause as she finished her comment.

But as rebel groups jockey for power and resources, more infighting is breaking out.

We have a really hard time breaking out of the male/aggressor female/victim mindset as a society.

One of the biggest factors in breaking out of a jobless streak could be … your teeth?

The red flashes were breaking out like a bunch of firecrackers, and with pretty much the same sound.

He was born at a very interesting period—about nine years before the breaking out of the American Revolution.

This scrutiny lasted so long that he was on the point of breaking out again when she checked him with her hand.

When she began again, I could somehow feel that she was just in time to prevent his breaking out into all sorts of love-making.

Past Herculaneum, now partly unburied, and so to gay Naples, where the sun is breaking out.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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