breaking

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All because our priorities warrant these “minor” bendings and breakings of the rules.

From Washington Post • Dec. 31, 2021

Over 2015, ground breakings climbed 10.8 percent to 1.1 million.

From Washington Post • Jan. 20, 2016

In Job 41:25, King James reads: "When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves."

From Time Magazine Archive

“Poor tender head is filled with breakings and achings,” Gurgi said, with a wan smile at Taran.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

And how doth the breakings of the body and church of Christ wound the spirit of Christians, and oftentimes occasion the spirit and life of Christianity to languish, if not to expire!

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by Bunyan, John