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  • noun Plural form of breakdown.

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Examples

  • Train breakdowns improved by 26% compared to last year's report and subway cars improved their cleanliness rating from 91% to 95%.

    Subways Improve Joseph De Avila 2010

  • All week, Behind the Numbers will feature additional breakdowns from the poll.

    New Post-Kaiser-Harvard poll on role of government Jon Cohen 2010

  • Many of them have breakdowns from the pressure to have careers, which they were not physically created for in the first place.

    Archive 2007-12-01 2007

  • Many of them have breakdowns from the pressure to have careers, which they were not physically created for in the first place.

    Better At Home 2007

  • I would emphasize as strongly as I can that the percentage of such breakdowns is extremely small.

    Labour's Prime Concerns Today 1968

  • A common recourse when it comes to trying to explain these kinds of outcomes is to refer to various "breakdowns" -- breakdowns of the traditional family, of schools, of religion, of community organizations, or of public values.

    Disaffected youth Daniel Little 2009

  • A common recourse when it comes to trying to explain these kinds of outcomes is to refer to various "breakdowns" -- breakdowns of the traditional family, of schools, of religion, of community organizations, or of public values.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Daniel Little 2009

  • Since 1971, Breakdown Services has shuttled role descriptions known as "breakdowns" and other audition materials between casting directors and actors, first by courier, mail and then fax.

    The Newcomers John Jurgensen 2011

  • In everything I've ever seen the actors are arranged pretty specifically by the number they're given in the breakdowns, which is related to the number of scenes they're in (typically).

    Tom Hanks Reveals Larry Crowne Casting But Leaves Us With Another Puzzle | /Film 2010

  • He was now and then on a couch, as Leon recalled his breakdowns, his sadness, his panic attacks, how he could not bear to be alone.

    Beard 2010

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