breaker
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The meltdown spilled over into the stock market, with the benchmark Borsa Istanbul 100 tumbling 5.5% on Wednesday and triggering a circuit breaker.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
In his essay, Mr. Santana compares John Coltrane to another barrier breaker, Jackie Robinson.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
South Korea's tech-heavy Kospi has been halted multiple times this year under a stock market mechanism known as a circuit breaker, which is designed to calm panic selling.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
On Wednesday, regulators were obliged to enforce the circuit breaker, suspending all trading temporarily, for the second consecutive day and the tenth time this year.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
In addition to his code-building duties, he was becoming Washington’s on-call code breaker.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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