broken up 1 of 2

past participle of break up
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as in disbanded
to cease to exist or cause to cease to exist as a group or organization the band broke up when their arguments over money grew too stressful

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as in cracked
to yield to mental or emotional stress the sort of person who would be among the first to break up in a prisoner of war camp

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adjective

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Verb
  • The federal cuts effectively disbanded the department’s Office of Language Acquisition, which oversees resources for these students.
    Lina Ruiz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Mar. 2025
  • After the group disbanded in 1987, their work was not recognized by any major art institution until 2011.
    Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • However, an avalanche, which claimed the lives of multiple sherpas in 2014, ended the shoot early.
    Samantha Stutsman, People.com, 22 Mar. 2025
  • While the Heat’s losing skid continued, another streak ended.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 22 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Data held in qubits is affected by data held in other qubits, even when physically separated.
    Chuck Brooks, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Nellie, who was separated from her husband, lived alone in a house not far from Clinton.
    Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • That was why the tractor had stopped.
    Peter Ross, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
  • In the first day or so after the snow stopped falling, Unified Government crews focused on clearing major thoroughfares.
    Alecia Taylor, Kansas City Star, 8 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • If the piece was indeed destroyed, Warner may have broken the law.
    Andrew Travers, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Jan. 2025
  • At first it was sold at Macy’s department store in large sheets broken into smaller pieces, then in the 1940s, the company sold its own candy bar size in stores.
    John Mariani, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • In our divided society, Juneteenth is more vital than ever.
    Rebecca L. Palmer, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 June 2025
  • For all the cry-cry about how the pressure is on the motion picture side in a divided entertainment conglom future, the Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy run studio, along with the Gunn and Safran run DC Studios, is on terra firma with plenty of downstream cash in store for Max from premium fare.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 19 June 2025
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  • Most importantly, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 1994 and ceased all political activities soon afterward.
    W. James Antle III, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The New York Giants’ high hopes for him last year quickly faded and completely ceased after the Giants lost in overtime to the Carolina Panthers in Germany — a game in which Jones only threw for 190 yards and was intercepted twice.
    Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 13 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • In November, two fiber-optic Baltic Sea cables were severed.
    Rebecca Rosman, NPR, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Iran’s land bridge to Hezbollah has been severed by the fall of Syria’s Assad regime.
    Dina Kraft, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Dec. 2024
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“Broken up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/broken%20up. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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