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Recent Examples of breaker
Water is catching up as the deal breaker.
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Monica Sanders, Forbes.com, 25 Jan. 2026
For Bruckner, a former collegiate-record breaker and Olympic Trials finalist, that gap felt personal.
—Kayla Hayempour, NBC news, 23 Jan. 2026
Reviewers say that this model’s eco mode outputs just the right amount of heat without tripping your breaker.
—Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 23 Jan. 2026
But with 16, that's a straight-up record-breaker.
—Linda Holmes, NPR, 22 Jan. 2026
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Monica Sanders, Forbes.com, 25 Jan. 2026
For Bruckner, a former collegiate-record breaker and Olympic Trials finalist, that gap felt personal.
—Kayla Hayempour, NBC news, 23 Jan. 2026
Reviewers say that this model’s eco mode outputs just the right amount of heat without tripping your breaker.
—Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 23 Jan. 2026
But with 16, that's a straight-up record-breaker.
—Linda Holmes, NPR, 22 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for breaker
Noun
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Remain out of the water to avoid hazardous surf and NEVER turn your back on the ocean.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
5 Feb. 2026
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Find pontoons, bowriders, surf boats, wakeboards, personal watercraft and more, plus a marine retail display.—
Caroline Ritzie,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
4 Feb. 2026
Noun
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In the scope was one of the many tiny fish bones that were found that day, probably belonging to a small comber or a wrasse.—
Paul Greenberg,
Smithsonian Magazine,
21 Dec. 2022
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The destructive combers continued to undermine dwellings near the water’s edge at West Newport Beach.—
Scott Harrison,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Sep. 2019
Noun
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But recently TikTok is discovering the face-framing magic that comes from turning your curls inward.—
Grace McCarty,
Glamour,
5 Feb. 2026
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These handles are usually coloured red or yellow, to identify each team’s stones, and the players control which way the stone curls by rotating the handle in one direction or the other.—
Matt Slater,
New York Times,
4 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Sportier types flock to the coastal city to carve into Monterey Bay’s endlessly rolling whitecaps.—
Kate Dingwall,
Vogue,
28 Sep. 2025
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The island is so close to shore and the water in the bay, which the breeze had rucked into a frenzy of small whitecaps, didn’t seem to be giving the smaller fishing boats any trouble.—
Emma Sloley
August 14,
Literary Hub,
14 Aug. 2025
Noun
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An unprecedented wave of Chinese AI listings has also unfolded in Hong Kong.—
John Liu,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
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For now, the agency still represents other A-list talent including Kendrick Lamar, Coldplay and Tyler, the Creator, though many in the industry suspect a wave of departures is coming.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Stoddard started roller skating in kindergarten, then switched to inline skating a year later.—
Aliza Chasan,
CBS News,
4 Feb. 2026
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There are also times — like in Usher’s roller skating fiasco — when talent might want extra time to rehearse certain moments of the show.—
Jayna Bardahl,
New York Times,
3 Feb. 2026
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“Breaker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/breaker. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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