Definitions
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- noun Alternative spelling of
breakup . - verb Alternative spelling of
break up .
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Examples
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State medical authorities called the break-up "abusive."
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The mere fact of being sexually active creates a host of concerns that probably shouldn't be on any 13-year-old's mental list, including the possibility of pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases and the sense of fierce rejection at any break-up, which is more intense when sex is involved.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Jenny McCartney 2012
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The mere fact of being sexually active creates a host of concerns that probably shouldn't be on any 13-year-old's mental list, including the possibility of pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases and the sense of fierce rejection at any break-up, which is more intense when sex is involved.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Jenny McCartney 2012
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A Yankee-in-Belgrade post a photo and writes about Stevo Radelic - “a Serbian refugee who has been living just outside of Belgrade now ever since he lost his home in Croatia at the beginning of Yugoslavia's break-up”: “He's made a new life for himself, although a difficult one, creating works of art from pieces of oak.”
Global Voices in English » Serbia: Thoughts on Doubt and Faith 2009
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A Yankee-in-Belgrade post a photo and writes about Stevo Radelic - “a Serbian refugee who has been living just outside of Belgrade now ever since he lost his home in Croatia at the beginning of Yugoslavia's break-up”: “He's made a new life for himself, although a difficult one, creating works of art from pieces of oak.”
Global Voices in English » Serbia: Gypsies’ Houses Torn Down in Belgrade 2009
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I use mossy oak new break-up in the late summer/early fall during archery season and spring turkey season, while in timber or creek bottoms.
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I use mossy oak new break-up in the late summer/early fall during archery season and spring turkey season, while in timber or creek bottoms.
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JM: Well, my whole life, I have loved the agonizing break-up songs.
Mike Ragogna: Machine Gun Preacher: Conversations with Chris Cornell Plus Jon McLaughlin, and Stephen Kellogg Exclusives Mike Ragogna 2011
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JB: To counter criticism that you are creating more divorces by building a business on the backs of broken hearts, you have said that you think AshleyMadison.com helps prevent the break-up of marriages by hooking people up for affairs.
AshleyMadison's CEO Thinks Affairs Help Keep Marriages Together--Do You? 2011
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It is set to spark controversy by focusing on the large number of veterans returning to a life on the streets, or crime and family break-up.
War veterans' mental sufferings dramatised in ex-para's movie 2011
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