noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the breakdown/breakup of sb’s marriage (= the end of it )
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The breakup of her marriage had a devastating effect on her.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I think Roger's still bitter about the breakup .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Although it was McCartney who announced the breakup , he had been most keen to continue.
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Fireballs display a wide range of breakup behavior in the atmosphere.
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In the hasty and confused breakup , nobody wished anybody a happy Hanukkah, a merry Christmas or a happy New Year.
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Know that non-marital breakups are difficult, too.
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More recently, the threat of Quebec's secession confronted the country with the very real possibility of political breakup .
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The Housing Act 1988 gave further encouragement to the breakup of the large housing estates remaining under local authority control.
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The water has a primeval chemistry that has prevailed along submarine mountain ranges since the breakup of Gondwanaland.
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Typically the biggest fragment produced by breakup is 10 to 50 percent of the total mass.