break out

Example Sentences

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Ahmed: It wasn’t so much out of a kind of frustration or a desire to create work for myself or break out of a pigeonhole or anything like that.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

The Bureau of Labor Statistics provides tools External link that break out unemployment by age, race, education, and other attributes.

From Barron's • May 22, 2026

What has not kept pace is any serious international framework for protecting plants when wars break out.

From Salon • May 21, 2026

Pennants are viewed as continuation patterns, which means the charted instrument tends to break out in the direction of the trend that preceded it.

From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026

The first to break out of the cloud on the far side of the lake would have the advantage, and that might mean survival, or it might mean a successful kill.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman