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[ UK /bɹˈe‍ɪkʌp/ ]
[ US /ˈbɹeɪˌkəp/ ]
NOUN
  1. coming apart
  2. the termination or disintegration of a relationship (between persons or nations)

How To Use breakup In A Sentence

  • They demonstrate that the orogen likely developed over a Neoproterozoic failed continental rift that was linked to the breakup of the supercontinent Rodinia. EurekAlert! - Breaking News
  • Flexibility of labour was obtained through the breakup of old trade union structures.
  • I speak from experience when I say that breakups hurt.
  • Oh, and remember, you as the dumper cannot be the one to help the dumpee through the breakup.
  • Not long after our breakup I arrived in London for a television performance, and the city cooperated soggily with my baleful mood. Living Alone and Loving It
  • If there are any government-run financial rescue operations in the future, the administration says, they should be funded by the financial industry - and they shouldn't be bailouts but "breakups" that liquidate the failing firm and fire its executives. Statesman.com - Highschool
  • It's a disturbing event, but Cliff needs only a couple of tokes and some sage advice from his mother - who thinks he's just upset over a breakup - to get over it.
  • Damir pointed out a salient problem with the west’s 1990s policies towards the breakup of Yugoslavia … there was a lot of solipsistic, “we can live in multiethnic harmony here, so Bosnia should be a multiethnic cooperative state, too!” Matthew Yglesias » Karadzic’s Defense
  • Both parties seemed to have a rather clinical view of the breakup of their marriage.
  • Conventional discussion of the breakup of the boom and its underlying causes are generally inadequate.
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