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breaker

[bray-ker] / ˈbreɪ kər /
NOUN
large wave
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In his essay, Mr. Santana compares John Coltrane to another barrier breaker, Jackie Robinson.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

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

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

South Korea's tech-heavy Kospi has been halted multiple times this year under a stock market mechanism known as a circuit breaker, which is designed to calm panic selling.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 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

If a woman code breaker was part of the story, so much the better.

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


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