to change (as a secret message) from code into ordinary language
Alan Turing and the Bletchley Park mathematicians broke the Enigma code being used by the Nazis
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Adjective
Really, Song wants to know whether a sensible girl can justify shackling herself to a broke creative.—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2025 Yet the city, which claims it is broke, spent money litigating this and even now is considering appealing this court’s common-sense ruling.—U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2025
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After the news of Zuckerberg’s bunker broke, other one-percenters followed suit.—Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Dec. 2024 But then the defense broke again on the Blue run.—The Athletic College Football Staff, The Athletic, 21 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for broke
Many are located in impoverished barrios dominated by criminals — who are now demanding a cut of their tuition fees.
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John Otis,
NPR,
7 July 2025
The ignorant need cultural immersion at the American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora, which tells the story of those who fled the Cuban island that went from a free, prosperous republic to an oppressive, impoverished dictatorship within a single generation.
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