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- noun Plural form of
break . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
break .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Its substant ice curls freely, molds, and breaks itself like water, breaks in waves, plastic like honey, crested lightly with a frozen spray; it winds tenderly about the rocky shore, and the granite, distintegrated into crumbs, flows on with it.
Mrs. Knollys 1907
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Cause they should be fine unless you are HARD on your breaks, Madrigle. "* the underlieing accusation is that i'm a speed demon and thus am HARD on my breaks* This whole dynamic makes me feel tiny in stature, and well, I just don't like asking him about it.
madrigle Diary Entry madrigle 2002
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When I'd come home over the term breaks I'd curl up for some quality TV time ... except, the commercials seemed longer and more inane than they ever had before.
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They claim it's clear that Spears sings "F-*-*-K me" repeatedly in the song's chorus - because that's what the title breaks down as.
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It sounds puzzling, until you realise the title breaks down as 'F.
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It sounds puzzling, until you realise the title breaks down as 'F. *.
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With surrealism this involves, presumably, finding a way to integrate a surrealisticpresentation with one's prior conceptions of the way things are: surrealism becomes an alternative vision of the world, one that breaks from the "normal" perceptions most of us share only to portray that world just as truthfully if more obliquely.
Experimental Fiction 2010
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With surrealism this involves, presumably, finding a way to integrate a surrealisticpresentation with one's prior conceptions of the way things are: surrealism becomes an alternative vision of the world, one that breaks from the "normal" perceptions most of us share only to portray that world just as truthfully if more obliquely.
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One problem with using tax breaks is that tax distribution tables only take account of taxes.
Tax Breaks vs. Subsidies, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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With surrealism this involves, presumably, finding a way to integrate a surrealisticpresentation with one's prior conceptions of the way things are: surrealism becomes an alternative vision of the world, one that breaks from the "normal" perceptions most of us share only to portray that world just as truthfully if more obliquely.
November 2009 2009
alexz commented on the word breaks
"my brakes failed" versus "my breaks failed" , the strict grammarians will find Google's statistics interesting.. http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=my+brakes+failed&word2=my+breaks+failed
spoiler alert "my breaks failed" wins by a ratio of 18 to 1.
April 1, 2013
bilby commented on the word breaks
Well, bullshit gets 5 million hits while bulls hit gets 110 million. Hence 'my breaks failed' passes no particular test of legitimacy I can think of courtesy of Googlefight, strict grammarian (or nay) that I am.
April 1, 2013
alexz commented on the word breaks
indeed bilby.
Taking your example, and extending it to a sentence form, it's clear that everyone has really been saying 'this is bulls hit'.
p.s. add quotes around phrases. :)
April 1, 2013
pterodactyl commented on the word breaks
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=%22my+breaks+failed%22&word2=%22my+brakes+failed%22
Quotes added.
April 2, 2013