rupture
Example Sentences
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When he was 12, his appendix ruptured and he nearly died, leading him to promise to serve God as an adult.
From Los Angeles Times
As Mark Carney, the prime minister of Canada, put it in a remarkably direct speech at Davos, the U.S.-led world order is a thing of the past; it has been ruptured.
From Salon
The market rupture was an emergency for America’s largest banks, and as the Fed official best connected on Wall Street, Warsh took a leading role coordinating the Fed’s policy response.
They worked, the country didn’t rupture, we endured.
Even before his speech in Davos, Carney told reporters in the Chinese capital that the global order was at a "point of rupture."
From BBC
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