broke

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Thayil wants to get things right — he explains that he was the person thinking about Soundgarden’s legacy after the band broke up in 1997.

From Salon • Jun. 9, 2026

I later learned he worried I’d be broke if baseball didn’t work out.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

Things changed in January 2025, when Bass was more than 7,000 miles away at a diplomatic function in Ghana when the Palisades fire broke out.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

The company broke ground on a $10 billion data-center campus in rural Richmond County, N.C., last month, The News & Observer reported.

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

She broke the honeycomb in half and gave me a piece.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff