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  • past tense form of break.
  • past participle of break.
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broke

[brohk] / broʊk /


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The ascension of Paz broke almost two decades of leftist rule by the Movement for Socialism party of ex-President Evo Morales.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 13, 2026

OpenAI revealed in July that its models broke out of their confined environment during testing, connected to the internet and infiltrated Hugging Face, a site developers use to store and share code.

From Barron's Sep. 13, 2026

Eventually, 700 of them broke into a major AI company’s platform in search of clues about how the grader worked.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 13, 2026

After we broke the news this week about an Anthropic researcher’s dire AI warning, it struck a nerve.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 12, 2026

Squaring my shoulders, I caught sight of one of the last groups of colonists moments before they turned down a side street, and I broke into a jog to follow them.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin




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