broke
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Fernandes, who last season broke the record for the most assists in a single Premier League campaign with 21, is the first United player to win the award since Wayne Rooney in 2010.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Europe's Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission has documented a major change at Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland, where a 76 sq km section of the glacier's floating ice tongue broke away on August 4, 2026.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
Arguments broke out, the crowd rumbled, and one younger woman suggested that an ill-tempered intruder needed to “dance hrself clean.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
LONDON—As news broke that Prince Harry was returning to live in the U.K., his elder brother, Prince William, arrived at Balmoral Castle for the royal family’s annual Scottish retreat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
“But he broke it off. He divorced his wife anyway and married Blanche a couple of years ago.”
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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