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- verb Present participle of
breach .
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Examples
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Hands sued Citigroup last year, saying it had tricked him into buying EMI, and sought extra cash from his backers to stop the label breaching debt covenants to avoid losing control of his most high-profile investment.
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Hands sued Citigroup last year, saying it had tricked him into buying EMI, and sought extra cash from his backers to stop the label breaching debt covenants to avoid losing control of his most high-profile investment.
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Hands sued Citigroup last year, saying it had tricked him into buying EMI, and sought extra cash from his backers to stop the label breaching debt covenants to avoid losing control of his most high-profile investment.
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Mr Blanche criticised his standing committee for what he called breaching his confidence by bringing the issue to public attention by tabling it in the House.
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This last is a key point; this is where they metaphorically breach the "laws of reality" in breaching the "natural order" of morality, why they may well literally breach those laws, as creatures of the borderland between Crime and Horror.
Freeform Critique Hal Duncan 2008
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This last is a key point; this is where they metaphorically breach the "laws of reality" in breaching the "natural order" of morality, why they may well literally breach those laws, as creatures of the borderland between Crime and Horror.
Archive 2008-01-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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They succeeded in breaching Hitler's previously impenetrable Atlantic Wall.
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Putting the nation in economic peril in this international climate should be classified as breaching national security.
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There are issues out there that have gone on for some time that Nader has been involved in, environmental issues, the idea of breaching those dams to save the salmon.
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I looked back at the rising moor, and decided that I could not blame the Brentor Church; I myself did not relish the idea of breaching those walls and walking out onto the flat expanse of the moorland within, no more than I would have relished a swim in the quarry lake next to Lew House — and for similar reasons.
The Moor King, Laurie R. 1998
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