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View definitions for break out

break out

verb as in happen, emerge

verb as in escape

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When the Mountain fire broke out more than two weeks ago, Samuel and Florentino witnessed the all-too familiar hazy, gray sky and the smell of smoke as they harvested strawberries in an Oxnard field.

The riots broke out after three young girls were killed in a knife attack at a children's dance event in Southport, and subsequent misinformation the suspect was an asylum seeker.

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He added that there "doesn't seem to be any sign of a return to pre-energy crisis levels," referring to the spike in costs seen when conflict between Russia and Ukraine broke out.

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Melissa Eve Ajosmaki, 24, who is originally from Finland but studies in Gothenburg, says she felt more worried when the war broke out in Ukraine.

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The record producer, who has been in the industry for over 20 years, says he "broke out in the same way".

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

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