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breakout

noun as in escape

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Here’s a primer on how Sasaki found his hype track, and how it’s become the breakout hit of L.A. this fall.

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From breakout comedians to beauty innovators, this year's nominees include jacket potato entrepreneurs, tap dancing brothers, a bus loving aunty, a BookTok aficionado and a film location fangirl.

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There was no tour with the acoustic “Nebraska,” which came next, but when I was in college Bruce’s chart-topping breakout arrived, “Born in the U.S.A.”

The breakout was an embarrassment for Mexican authorities who were trying to prove to the U.S. that they were tackling fentanyl trafficking and head off unilateral American military action against cartels.

The slight increase is “not a breakout, but certainly a welcome trend,” Lawrence Yun, chief economist at the National Association of Realtors, said in a press call on Thursday.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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