How to Use make a clean break in a Sentence

make a clean break

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  • Move in with a friend, make a clean break, and don’t look back.
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Or might younger ones be less willing, or able, to make a clean break?
    — Jason Farago, Town & Country, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Now the Browns make a clean break, three weeks before the start of training camp.
    — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2022
  • Rather than stay and fight, Dickinson preferred to make a clean break.
    — Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online, 14 Jan. 2023
  • Those who play pool, including Lee, said that is barely enough to make a clean break on the table.
    — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Rocovits convinced him to make a clean break from his life in the gig economy and go into business with him.
    — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 14 Jan. 2022
  • To make a clean break, Jelly recently got rid of his cellphone for several months.
    — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 1 June 2023
  • Now, the Ukrainian authorities plan to use their wartime powers to try to make a clean break with the oligarchs.
    — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Finally, this would be an ideal moment for the FTC to make a clean break with its union-busting past.
    — Sandeep Vaheesan, The New Republic, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Despite attempting to distance himself from his former patron, Zelensky has never been able to make a clean break with him.
    — Michael C. Desch, Harper's Magazine, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Deprecating that hardware makes some sense for a company trying to make a clean break from the more limited, less capable hardware of the past.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 23 June 2020
  • With that goal in mind, the FDA’s promotion of an alternative could be a breath of fresh air for providers looking to make a clean break from the method.
    — Korin Miller, Verywell Health, 2 Feb. 2024
  • But western companies remain under significant pressure to make a clean break with Russia or be subject to the Kremlin’s whims, experts say.
    — Yvonne Lau, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2022
  • McConnell's speech was widely regarded as an attempt by the Senate Republican leader to make a clean break from Trump and move the party forward without him.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 7 Apr. 2022
  • The investigation could be harmful to an incoming president seeking to make a clean break from the conflicts of interest of his predecessor, even if Hunter Biden is found not to have breached any laws.
    — Katherine Doyle, Washington Examiner, 24 Dec. 2020
  • By handing the reins to Zaslav, AT&T signaled its desire to make a clean break following a disastrous foray into entertainment.
    — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2021

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