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Breakdown in sentence

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I call it a breakdown; my therapist calls it a spiritual awakening.
A spiritual awakening sounds better than breakdown, but I assure you, it was a breakdown.
So we had this little communication breakdown.
You breakdown the molecules, you recombine them in very specific ways, to make all the wonderful plastics that we enjoy each and every day.
When does this breakdown begin?
And that when being vulnerable emerged from my data, as absolutely essential to whole-hearted living, I told these 500 people that I had a breakdown.
I had a slide that said 'Breakdown.'
She's right here and she said, "You're the shame researcher who had the breakdown."
Then we read your book and we renamed ourselves 'The Breakdown Babes.'"
We can also get a gender breakdown.
We can do an age breakdown, which gives us a histogram of the world's emotional distribution by age.
But as the article mentions, because of enzyme breakdown, it's unlikely that phenethylamine will reach your brain if taken orally.
We cause climate breakdown, we acidify the oceans, a hole in the ozone layer, pushing ourselves beyond the planetary boundaries of the life-supporting systems that have for the last 11,000 years made earth such a benevolent home to humanity.
And yet, we've already overshot at least four of these planetary boundaries, risking irreversible impact of climate breakdown and ecosystem collapse.
What this shows is a nation-by-nation breakdown of the likely level of food waste in each country in the world.
I always dreamt that, when I had my final breakdown, it would be because I had a deep Kafkaesque existentialist revelation, or that maybe Cate Blanchett would play me and she would win an Oscar for it.
I had my breakdown during my daughter's sports day.
But worse than that, it is causing hunger, poverty, violence, social breakdown and war, and as I am talking to you, millions of men, women and children are suffering and dying.
We actually see, in the breakdown of social development, that adolescence and old age look strikingly alike, because both are periods of identity confusion.
And that gets us to another breakdown that's crucial, and another breakdown that couldn't be more important to a group like this, because the growth of America and real American national security and all of the things that drove progress even during the Cold War, was a public-private partnership between science, technology and government that began when Thomas Jefferson sat alone in his laboratory inventing new things.
And there was this moment of absolute breakdown, and then of clarity: we had to work in a different way.
You have yourself warned about the situation and about the consequences of a breakdown of Libya, for example, and yet Europe looked totally unprepared.
This breakdown of trust in media gatekeepers lead to alternative newspapers, radio shows, and cable news competing with the major outlets and covering events from various perspectives.
Ultraviolet radiation can also contribute to this pigment breakdown, though it can be mitigated by the use of sunblock.
Initially unsuccessful, he soon got his chance when he was appointed Protector of the Realm after Henry suffered a mental breakdown.
The clumps disrupt transport and communication along the neuron and drive the breakdown of connections within the brain.
It does not mean I won't have a breakdown the next time a couple dozen people say that I talk (Mumbling) like I have peanut butter in my mouth.
TE: Nine years after the Christmas dance, I was 25 years old, and headed straight for a nervous breakdown.
But I was real cracked up: not exactly having a nervous breakdown, but not too far off, and awful sad either way.
The first sign of the impending cleansing was the breakdown of trust within communities.
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