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Definition of Breakaways
1. breakaway [n] - See also: breakaway
Lexicographical Neighbors of Breakaways
Literary usage of Breakaways
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Circular by United States Weather Bureau, Confederate States of America Nitre and Mining Bureau (1920)
"Few breakaways are caused by the pull exceeding the formal tensile strength of
clean undamaged wire. Kinks, sharp ->ends, rust spots, or flaws in the ..."
2. A Strategy for Assessing Science: Behavioral and Social Research on Aging by Irwin Feller, Paul C. Stern (2007)
"Some breakaways succeed and some fail, but because of the difficulties of making
progress by working alone (wind resistance, in the bicycle race analogy), ..."
3. The Beast by Ben Barr Lindsey, Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins (1910)
"(During these eight years, the police, I was told, lost forty-two "breakaways"
who were never recovered.) And we saved the county several thousand dollars ..."
4. International Religious Freedom (2000): Report to Congress by the Department edited by Barbara Larkin (2001)
"Although these churches originally were founded as breakaways from various mission
churches (the so-called Ethiopian churches), the African Independent ..."
5. The Mount Vernon Street Warrens: A Boston Story, 1860-1910 by Martin Green (1880)
"The breakaways, who became known as Mugwumps after Charles A. Dana used that
term, demanded good government and higher moral standards in politics. ..."
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