breaker

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Recent Examples of breaker Copied Share Code breaker Andrew Greif NFL teams closely guard aspects of their playbook like nuclear codes. NBC News, 6 Dec. 2024 This year is expected to be another record breaker for heat across the globe. Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024 That said, one tie breaker or another would put one of the four teams in the third or fourth playoff spot currently occupied by the division leader Arizona Cardinals (6-4). Jim Sergent, USA TODAY, 24 Nov. 2024 Wizard added that gaps in ability like the ones between Raygun and her fellow breakers isn’t all that unusual in other sports. Marah Eakin, WIRED, 3 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for breaker 
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Noun
  • After a morning in the surf, Cape Weligama’s open-air Ocean Terrace restaurant offered a feast: thick, creamy buffalo curd served with coconut treacle; baskets of lacy, crisp egg hoppers; fragrant green bean yellow curry served with regional red rice and crispy pappadums.
    Christine Chitnis, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2025
  • After removing the hooks and lines, Johnson pulled the fish by the tail into the ocean and released it in the surf, video shows.
    Mark Price, Miami Herald, 7 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • Google Images shows a young man with a head of enviable black curls (unlike the head of fifty-one-year-old Thadeus Wong).
    Han Ong, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2025
  • The chainmail dress was paired with Lorraine Schwartz jewels, while the star’s brunette hair was styled in loose curls.
    Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 7 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • From a reading delivered in November in Richmond, Virginia. e began to figure it out on day eleven or twelve of the seven-day trip, the slate and obsidian waves rolling under our stern, the crispy hoarfrost of whitecap foam seeding in our beards, the wind spitting ice in our eyes.
    Mark Richard, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
  • This is the largest whitecap on what has been a massive wave of consolidation this year in the global insurance sector.
    Kia Kokalitcheva, Axios, 2 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • The Bears are now deep into their process and plowing through the first wave of interviews.
    Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Multiple other films positioned themselves this weekend to ride the awards wave.
    Tom Brueggemann, IndieWire, 12 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Her process begins with massaging the face using tools like microcurrents, rollers and gua sha to rejuvenate the skin.
    Ryma Chikhoune, WWD, 3 Jan. 2025
  • The main building, which sits just beyond a little church, is a warren of small rooms crammed with ephemera like wood masks, accordions, and butter rollers that owners Emanuela and Sergio Rossi have acquired over the years.
    Toby Skinner, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Dec. 2024

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“Breaker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/breaker. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.

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