breakdown

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Sure: It’s not just this breakdown that set things up to be as bad as they are now.

From Slate • Jun. 9, 2026

And I had a breakdown in the ER.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

Here is a breakdown of how the 11 sectors of the S&P 500 have performed, with the full index at the bottom:

From MarketWatch • May 29, 2026

To understand this, take a look at the breakdown of Treasury yields, which is the underlying, or real, yield plus inflation expectations.

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

One leading doctor, Vasily Mishin, suggested that she had experienced a breakdown.

From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson