- past participle of break.
broken
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“I played with the twins since we were 14 years old,” Leslie wrote, along with a broken heart emoji, in the comments of the WNBA’s Instagram post announcing Horton’s death.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Both communions suffer pastoral costs as a result of the schism, including broken families and strained marriages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Victoria Coronel, a student at the University of Matanza in Buenos Aires province, echoed some of the French students' grievances, including "broken things don't get fixed" and teachers leaving the profession because of low salaries.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
With many people feeling like conventional paths to wealth are broken, copy-trading platform Dub lets everyday investors automatically mirror the portfolios of hedge-fund managers, registered advisers and even politicians.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
The carriage had broken, but both runners were in good shape.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
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