breakage
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The automaker has commissioned multiple studies to analyze sunroof breakage, it said, but hasn’t found an inherent defect as a cause, only issues related to foreign objects impacting the glass.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Part of elephants' whisker evolution is to prevent breakage, said Schulz.
From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026
Historically, cables in Taiwan, Vietnam and Egypt have all been vulnerable to breakage and sabotage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2025
It was just like a bro-code breakage, and I said, "That's it. I'm done with the guy."
From Salon ● May 18, 2024
I heard a voice say, followed by the sounds of breakage, and finally footsteps receding.
From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi
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In the past, Twitter prevented breakages from escalating by having people around to diagnose and solve problems immediately.
From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2023
A spokeswoman for Marseille police confirmed Friday to The Associated Press that its officers and local gendarmes are investigating multiple breakages to cables on the city’s outskirts.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 21, 2022
"It's not all done on the morning of the event, but there are occasions where breakages, damage occurs during the rehearsals," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2022
Cohen said he was conscious of the “gaps and breakages everywhere” - between his generation’s views of Israel and its parents’, and between American and Israeli Jews.
From Washington Times ● May 10, 2022
There were several breakages because I was brandishing the sword so clumsily.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
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