breech

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Recent Examples of breech But, Koontz added, there was no breech of the hull and no structural damage. Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 July 2025 Dragoons followed in leather breeches and woolen gaiters, dismounted for the moment but hopeful of finding American horses ahead. / Cbs News, CBS News, 13 June 2025 When Joséphine’s daughter, Hortense, goes into early labor with her baby in breech, mother and daughter are forced into an impossible decision between saving Hortense’s life or her child’s. Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 11 June 2025 Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer suggested the acceptance of the plane is an unprecedented breech of American standards. Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 12 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for breech
Recent Examples of Synonyms for breech
Noun
  • Simons would stand near Lillard’s seat and receive a high-level basketball education from the All-Star point guard.
    Jay King, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The Zone 4 seat is up for reelection in March 2026.
    Edward McKinnon, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Carpenter rocked her hallmark voluminous blonde curls, finishing the beauty moment with rosy pink cheeks and a matching lipstick.
    Kelsey Stewart, Footwear News, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Her cheeks grew sore from smiling.
    Luca Evans, Denver Post, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Over the weekend, the actress was spotted attending a play in New York City while wearing a slouchy, beige button-up cardigan styled with coordinating slacks.
    Averi Baudler, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Hall’s subversion of menswear — floppy hats, loose slacks and oversized collared shirts, or a necktie bursting out from the bottom of a waistcoat — was, in many ways, Keaton’s own.
    Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The plane's inflatable escape slide was deployed, and the nose and tail sections of the plane separated.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The aircraft was left partially submerged with its tail section snapped off, video showed.
    Chris Lau, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Bill got his second deer, and hurt his bum knee while packing out the animal.
    Marguerite Reiss, Outdoor Life, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Cora planned for his players to test the right fielder’s bum elbow — the Red Sox always attack pinstriped vulnerabilities on the basepaths — and sure enough Nick Sogard turned a single into a double in the seventh because Judge can’t throw the ball.
    Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The second was hit at 338 paces in the rump.
    Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 24 Sep. 2025
  • His skin was taut with strength; his rump came right off his back like his father’s.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • By the end of the 2009 Open, a braying heckler had complimented Vijay Singh on his posterior, and the United States Golf Association cut off alcohol sales early.
    Sally Jenkins, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2025
  • People with flat feet and those with hip tightness can be more prone to shin splints, as can those with tightness or weakness in the calves or tibialis posterior (the muscle on the backside of the shin bone), Dr. Betiku adds.
    Jenny McCoy, SELF, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Austin ranked last with 166 gallons per day per capita, and the Dallas-Fort Worth area ranked third from the bottom with less than 200 gallons per day per capita.
    Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Oct. 2025
  • At bottom, that’s the thing that grinds my gears.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025

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“Breech.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/breech. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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