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Bruins coach DeShaun Foster said Jalen Berger, a transfer from Michigan State, could be on pace for more carries after breaking off a few good runs last weekend against Louisiana State.

“I thought he did a great job of breaking off man coverage and then be able to have the swag to flip in was pretty cool.”

Predictably, Mali’s ruling military junta, and the allied regime in neighbouring Niger, protested by breaking off diplomatic relations with Kyiv.

From BBC

In response to Mr Yusov's comment, Mali accused Ukraine of violating its sovereignty and announced it was breaking off relations with Ukraine "with immediate effect".

From BBC

"Our approach is to use a particular type of phage that disarms the bacteria. We remove their ability to exchange drug-resistance genes or to move around by breaking off this appendage."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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