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broken

[broh-kuhn] / ˈbroʊ kən /








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“If you knew him, you loved him. A brilliant actor and even better person. May his memory forever be a blessing. Our hearts are so broken. He will be very, very missed.”

From Los Angeles Times

Two years ago, she asked me to use my sewing machine to shore up some of the broken stitching, which I did.

From The Wall Street Journal

All-rounder Jacks missed the tour of New Zealand as he recovered from a broken finger and returns to both squads as one of a number of spin options in the subcontinental conditions.

From BBC

Fireworks or the sound of hunters shooting sent her hiding under a desk in class "because I thought war had broken out in France".

From BBC

That doesn’t include revenues from Google’s TPU business or Amazon’s custom chips sales, neither of which are broken out by their parent companies.

From The Wall Street Journal