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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Recent Examples of broke
Adjective
So to invest in a broke company is beyond me.—Joe Vardon, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025 In any case, now Jeremiah has to trade a rent-free room at Steven’s apartment for a rent-free room at Denise’s, but clearly, being broke does wonders for the spirit.—Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
AstraZeneca this week broke ground on a new facility in Virginia, an event Young and Oz attended.—Joseph Choi, The Hill, 10 Oct. 2025 After news of the trio’s meeting broke, fans immediately started speculating on social media that Philadelphia’s locker room culture was starting to sour.—Michael Gallagher, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for broke
The caravan, which departed earlier this month, is expected to take weeks to reach its destination, where migrants hope to find higher-paying jobs in Mexico’s capital city, rather than its impoverished south.
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Caitlin McFall,
FOXNews.com,
7 Oct. 2025
But the Shah’s failure to provide support to the peasants led to their farms failing, and sent waves of impoverished migrants to Tehran and other Iranian cities—many of whom would later fuel the 1979 revolution.
These dolphins exhibited 536 altered genes, indicating disrupted GABAergic synapses, changes in the basement membrane, and increased Alzheimer's risk factors, which worsen with each bloom season.
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Pranjal Malewar,
New Atlas,
14 Oct. 2025
Air travel was snarled during the more than month-long government shutdown that ended in January 2019, hours after a shortfall of air traffic controllers disrupted flights in the New York area.
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Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Sep. 2025
In total, 16 metrics were deciphered to rank each state under these dimensions, such as shares of children, teens and adults with different vaccinations, people without health insurance, and many others.
Hardy plowed over him and celebrated a go-ahead touchdown that ignited the crowd.
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David Ubben,
New York Times,
9 Oct. 2025
Melvin Cravitz, 66, and Adrian Daulby, 53, were killed when 35-year-old British citizen Jihad Al Shamie, who was born in Syria, plowed his car into pedestrians and stabbed at least one other victim.
His team also asked for a stay of execution and a new trial after claims that judicial officials in Anderson County, where a jury sentenced him to death in 2003, violated Roberson's constitutional rights.
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Erik Ortiz,
NBC news,
9 Oct. 2025
The president of the European Commission highlighted that in just the last two weeks, Russian drones and warplanes have violated the airspace of six European nations, scrambling jets, grounding commercial flights and posing a direct threat to EU citizens.
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