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1. Breaks

   Breaks, Virginia is a small Virginia community located in Dickenson County. Breaks is located very close to the Kentucky border and is east of Breaks Interstate Park. Breaks gets its name in reference to the "break" in Pine Mountain, a mountain range that spans along the Kentucky-Virginia border and ends near the community of Breaks. It was in Breaks that U.S. Senator George Allen called S. R. Sidarth, a volunteer for the Jim Webb campaign and an Indian American, a macaca. This started a controversy that gained national attention.

Anagrams for breaks »

1. Bakers

2. Brakes

How to pronounce breaks?

1. Alex

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of breaks in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of breaks in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of breaks in a Sentence

1. Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1929:

   The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

2. John McCain:

   It's one of these things you just propose amendments to bills and encourage hearings and sooner or later the dam breaks, but I have to tell you ... the power of this maritime lobby is as powerful as anybody or any organization I have run up against in my political career. All I can do is appeal to the patron saint of lost causes and keep pressing and pressing and sooner or later you have to succeed.

3. Andre Drummond:

   Defensively, we’ve started taking breaks, so we’ve got to get back to basics, but we’re not going to hang our heads after this loss because we’re still in the fight and trying for a playoff position.

4. Cristian Tomasetti:

   This is the current paradigm and we feel that our new research breaks this paradigm, we discovered there's a third factor that actually causes most of the mutations -- random errors made during normal cell division.Asbestos exposure is still making people sickSo why was this never appreciated before ?

5. Diane Thompson:

   It's a different type of busy. There are no gaps, there are no breaks.

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