1
as in anxieties
a mental or nervous collapse
if you don't ease your workload, you're going to have a breakdown
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2
as in analyses
the separation and identification of the parts of a whole
the boss wanted a detailed breakdown of the sales figures
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Recent Examples of breakdowns
Early motorists often carried tools and spare parts, expecting breakdowns as part of the journey.
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Bill Gourgey, Popular Science, 5 Feb. 2026
Your home routine might be interrupted because of appliance breakdowns, a minor breakage or unexpected company at the door.
—Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 5 Feb. 2026
When his new management team in 2024 requested detail breakdowns for certain bouts, Showtime declined to produce them, according to the complaint.
—Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 4 Feb. 2026
The commission’s board members asked the LAPD for more data on pretextual stops, including breakdowns of the ethnicities of people pulled over, the evidence found by ethnic group, the time of day for the stops and the reasons why the drivers were stopped.
—Nathaniel Percy, Daily News, 4 Feb. 2026
Ivory mentioned that a similar pipe failure last summer caused more than $1 million in damage and said recent site visits have confirmed that these breakdowns are recurring and structural, not accidental.
—La'tasha Givens, CBS News, 3 Feb. 2026
Schnell said his department has repeatedly asked DHS to provide underlying data, methodologies or jurisdictional breakdowns but has received no response.
—Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 30 Jan. 2026
Other Cruz fundraising pleas have used different breakdowns.
—Joseph Morton, Dallas Morning News, 30 Jan. 2026
One operation persisted fourteen hours, a sort of sci-fi marvel of science, internal engineering, and medical dedication, contra all the coeval dystopian breakdowns of that first COVID year.
—Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
Bill Gourgey, Popular Science, 5 Feb. 2026
Your home routine might be interrupted because of appliance breakdowns, a minor breakage or unexpected company at the door.
—Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 5 Feb. 2026
When his new management team in 2024 requested detail breakdowns for certain bouts, Showtime declined to produce them, according to the complaint.
—Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 4 Feb. 2026
The commission’s board members asked the LAPD for more data on pretextual stops, including breakdowns of the ethnicities of people pulled over, the evidence found by ethnic group, the time of day for the stops and the reasons why the drivers were stopped.
—Nathaniel Percy, Daily News, 4 Feb. 2026
Ivory mentioned that a similar pipe failure last summer caused more than $1 million in damage and said recent site visits have confirmed that these breakdowns are recurring and structural, not accidental.
—La'tasha Givens, CBS News, 3 Feb. 2026
Schnell said his department has repeatedly asked DHS to provide underlying data, methodologies or jurisdictional breakdowns but has received no response.
—Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 30 Jan. 2026
Other Cruz fundraising pleas have used different breakdowns.
—Joseph Morton, Dallas Morning News, 30 Jan. 2026
One operation persisted fourteen hours, a sort of sci-fi marvel of science, internal engineering, and medical dedication, contra all the coeval dystopian breakdowns of that first COVID year.
—Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for breakdowns
Noun
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When that broader lens is applied, analyses estimate that the share of Americans who qualify as obese rises from 42% to roughly 68%.—
Bret Scher,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Feb. 2026
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The Department of Public Health would absorb the Certificate of Need initiative and the data collection and analyses related to CON decision making, officials said Wednesday.—
Katy Golvala,
Hartford Courant,
5 Feb. 2026
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The Amazon-like company has been subjected to a number of investigations, raids, and inspections initiated by the Korea Fair Trade Commission, the country’s primary antitrust regulator, in recent years.—
David Zimmermann,
The Washington Examiner,
6 Feb. 2026
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Before Moscow suspended New START in 2023, both parties carried out 328 on-site inspections and exchanged more than 25,000 notifications about each other’s activities, according to the State Department.—
Yuliya Talmazan,
NBC news,
5 Feb. 2026
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State authorities have frequently partnered with the federal government in the past on such investigations and welcome a good-faith partnership in the future, Bonta said.—
Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Feb. 2026
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The Amazon-like company has been subjected to a number of investigations, raids, and inspections initiated by the Korea Fair Trade Commission, the country’s primary antitrust regulator, in recent years.—
David Zimmermann,
The Washington Examiner,
6 Feb. 2026
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The space weather center issued a G1 geomagnetic storm watch for a heightened risk of minor disturbances to Earth's magnetic field from the portion of the field that may reach the Earth.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
3 Feb. 2026
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More reliable forecasts of solar activity could help protect satellites, reduce risks to navigation systems, and give power grid operators advance warning of geomagnetic disturbances.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Feb. 2026
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“Breakdowns.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/breakdowns. Accessed 10 Feb. 2026.
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