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How to use the word break in a Sentence?

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It's okay to break my feelings, it's okay to say no, but what is not okay is to play with my feelings; for that's where trust shatters and scars grow.

– Christen Kuikoua

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A great once said he had a dream, yet many of us remain slaves of our own minds and possessions. Until we break the chains of self-imposed limitations and material attachments, the dream of true freedom will elude us, and the echoes of liberation will only be whispers in the corridors of our aspirations.

– Christen Kuikoua

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Not defined by hues, nor land’s embrace, I stand before you, a human race. The cold winds blow, outside your gate, Open, brother, don’t discriminate. In unity, our strength takes flight, Let compassion be our guiding light. No borders in the heart’s terrain,Together, as one, we break the chain.”

– Christen Kuikoua

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It’d be virtually impossible for somebody to break through in a constructive way at this stage.

– Alex Conant

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1 year ago

I ’m a parent of three boys, and when I hear from my boys [ that ] they do n’t want to go to the bathroom because people will be vaping in there, it just breaks my heart that they’re not having a bathroom break all day because of that, that kids are so addicted that they have to sneak away to the bathroom, or they are vaping in class using some covert pieces of clothing, shows this really is a public health crisis. Get CNN Health's weekly newsletter Sign up here to get The Results Are In with Dr. Sanjay Gupta every Tuesday from the CNN Health team.

– Susan Walley

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1 year ago

I know it’s heavy, it can break and all the rest of that, but we think that the advantages to using glass containers for storing food and reheating food outweigh the risks.

– James Rogers

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1 year ago

We may be both grateful for these tools but also a bit worried, what happens if these marvelous new technologies break down and leave our loved ones more vulnerable than ever before ? Pandemic preparedness in ‘ Contagion ’ rings true During the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, many turned to Steven Soderbergh’s.

– Lisa Yaszek

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1 year ago

When the great bubbles break, they do impose a lot of stress on the system, it’s like pressure behind a dam. It’s very hard to know which part will go.

– Jeremy Grantham

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1 year ago

Other things will break, and who knows what they will be, we’re by no means finished with the stress to the financial system.

– Jeremy Grantham

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1 year ago

I’m grateful to our dedicated career prosecutors and victims’ counselors who tried this case. They worked hard to make a complete and accurate presentation of the facts to the jury, our hearts continue to break for the Foster family. We hope this verdict brings closure and peace to the victim’s family.

– Travis County

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1 year ago

Whole food carbohydrates take longer to break down into simple sugars, and a part of them — the fiber — ca n’t be broken down at all, this means that whole, intact grains do n’t cause the same spikes in blood sugar that we experience when we eat simple sugars. Blood sugar spikes trigger insulin spikes, which can destabilize our blood glucose and … be the underlying cause of health problems in the long run.

– Maya Adam

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1 year ago

What is outrageous to me is not only Starbucks’ anti-union activities and their willingness to break the law, it is their calculated and intentional efforts to stall, stall and stall.

– Bernie Sanders

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1 year ago

It’s also one of the best ways to pause — to break up or revive energy from a spiraling, unproductive mindset.

– Jessica Honig

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1 year ago

What is outrageous to me is not only Starbucks anti-union activities and their willingness to break the law, it is their calculated and intentional efforts to stall, stall and stall, what Starbucks is doing is not only trying to break unions, but even worse. They are trying to break the spirit of workers who are struggling to improve their lives. And that is unforgivable.

– Bernie Sanders

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1 year ago

I am not, because Starbucks coffee company did not break the law.

– Bernie Sanders

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1 year ago

I had eight weeks over the summer and four weeks over the winter, so I would take those breaks and basically the minute the school would break up, I would be on a plane and then I would n’t land until the day before it started back up again.

– Jemma Warner-Gregory

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1 year ago

It appears that Alibaba’s break-up has been orchestrated by Beijing, this idea is reinforced by Jack Ma’s sudden reappearance, which now seems like a planned media event intended to boost market sentiment at a critical moment.

– Brock Silvers

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1 year ago

Even when — especially when — their friend is struggling or going through something hard, you know someone is a true friend when they have your back when you’re sick, when you lose your job, when you make a mistake, when you’re going through a break-up, when you’re stressed, when you’re sad.

– Adam Smiley Poswolsky

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1 year ago

Our hearts break for the families of those who didn’t come home.

– Josh Shapiro

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1 year ago

The teachers and the support staff there, they’re going to talk to their employer, their boss, to say we need more to take care of ourselves, in order to do that, they have to take a break from school.

– Sandra Colton-Medici

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1 year ago

It’s annoying and we’re sad to see the learning loss for our kids, it’s really coming on the heels of the holidays and with spring break coming up soon, it really feels like we’ve barely even had a spring semester.

– Wade Armstrong

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1 year ago

We can actually break fast, it’s not compulsory.

– Sultan Alneyadi

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1 year ago

When you take on a pet, you take on a big responsibility, it’s almost like when you buy a car, you’re going to have a lot of responsibility with that car. That car is going to break down, that car’s going to need repairs. It’s an investment.

– Linda Harding

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1 year ago

I realize his question was just a way to start conversation, i guess in a way it did break the ice because I did my usual rambling with far too much detail and color for any answer, displaying a kind of classic American friendliness which some French people find fun.

– Bolivia Augustin and Michelle

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1 year ago

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