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- adjective idiomatic That causes extreme
sorrow orgrief .
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Examples
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David Wood has written a compelling, heart-breaking series on this topic for The Huffington Post.
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: A Salute to Military Medicine, Our Brave Warriors M.D. Glenn D. Braunstein 2011
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David Wood has written a compelling, heart-breaking series on this topic for The Huffington Post.
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: A Salute to Military Medicine, Our Brave Warriors M.D. Glenn D. Braunstein 2011
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I wondered how the players would feel returning to the court fewer than 24 hours after the heart-breaking end to their 2011 season.
Laurel J. Richie: The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of Laurel J. Richie 2011
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More tragically, the untimely and heart-breaking death of billionaire visionary Steve Jobs shows that a man can create technology that will reinvent life but cannot escape human ignorance as to how to overcome illness and the inevitability of death.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Mortgage Meltdown Has Made Every House a Sukka Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011
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More tragically, the untimely and heart-breaking death of billionaire visionary Steve Jobs shows that a man can create technology that will reinvent life but cannot escape human ignorance as to how to overcome illness and the inevitability of death.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Mortgage Meltdown Has Made Every House a Sukka Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011
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But Walker also brings a heart-breaking openness; so tough with her friends, she all but crumbles in a scene in which she tries to overcome her mother's glaring disapproval.
Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Pariah Marshall Fine 2011
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At times, when he deemed he had drawn clear, his head dizzy with the painful pounding of his heart and the suffocating intake of his breath, he slackened down; and ever the shadow leaped out of the gloom and forced him on in heart-breaking flight.
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And of all heart-breaking labors, that of breaking trail is the worst.
The White Silence 2010
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Another day of heart-breaking and dangerous toil saw us in camp with the two topmasts to the good.
Chapter 36 2010
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More tragically, the untimely and heart-breaking death of billionaire visionary Steve Jobs shows that a man can create technology that will reinvent life but cannot escape human ignorance as to how to overcome illness and the inevitability of death.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Mortgage Meltdown Has Made Every House a Sukka Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011
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