Words similar to breaks

Example sentences for: breaks

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Time magazine reported that the new Democratic National Committee finance chairman had lobbied for regulatory breaks for nursing homes while he was 1) a nursing-home executive and 2) raising big money for the DNC.
When an individual family member acquires enough random mutations, it breaks away to form a new family.
The LAT breaks the story that former senior White House aide Harold Ickes has this week told federal investigators that he was in the same room at the White House with President Clinton when Clinton made telephone fund pitches to several Democratic contributors during the run-up to the 1994 elections.
One useful function of dictionaries till recently was that they showed syllabic breaks, enabling letter- and novel-writers alike to discover where to hyphenate words.
USA Today leads with a look at the new federal and state tax breaks coming in with 1998.