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breaker

[brey-ker] / ˈbreɪ kər /
NOUN
large wave
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The meltdown spilled over into the stock market, with the benchmark Borsa Istanbul 100 tumbling 5.5% on Wednesday and triggering a circuit breaker.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

Both players failed to take break-point opportunities before a match-deciding breaker swung back and forth.

From BBC Sep. 9, 2026

One Friday night that May, roughly 1,600 people watched live as a breaker opened a sealed case of NBA cards.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

On Wednesday, regulators were obliged to enforce the circuit breaker, suspending all trading temporarily, for the second consecutive day and the tenth time this year.

From MarketWatch Jul. 29, 2026

Besides, as any code breaker can tell you, there are times when silence itself speaks volumes, saying as much as any message itself could.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield




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