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  • past tense form of break.
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broke

[brohk] / broʊk /


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Metro officials, who broke ground on the project with Metro chair and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass on Monday, didn’t have an immediate response to questions about why the project had been delayed so long.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

More than 2,500 people have been arrested since the disorder broke out, officials said.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

“I broke that relationship, like I did many relationships that I love dearly,” Lentz says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

“Every relationship in markets that we thought we had taken for granted broke apart in the back half of September,” said Nicholas Colas, co-founder of DataTrek Research, during an interview with MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

The pain in Torak’s chest broke loose and lifted free.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver


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