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Examples
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Icarus will strain his theories to the breaking-point till the weak joints gape.
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In the latter case, the stranglehold of our fleet would be effective, and the Central Powers would be deprived of essential food and material and their will and power of resistance would be weakened to a breaking-point.
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But Wesker, at his best, is also capable of showing human relationships tested to breaking-point.
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But Wesker, at his best, is also capable of showing human relationships tested to breaking-point.
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He's been painfully absent and with everything he's gone through recently, it must all build up and make him close to breaking-point, right?
Ask Matt: Fringe, Dexter, Walking Dead, Post-Mortems and More 2010
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Fostering racial division and heightening tensions to near breaking-point by playing the race card any time one of his positions or his inexperience is questioned isn't hate?
"As creepy and inappropriate as this singing is -- it’s not as bad as what Obama is actually proposing..." Ann Althouse 2008
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Anna stayed at the window, watching, her nerves at breaking-point; she couldnt understand why they didnt simply arrest the pair.
Deadly Intent Lynda La Plante 2008
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And weve made a connection between all of them, Anna snapped, her patience at breaking-point.
Deadly Intent Lynda La Plante 2008
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Bush if she hadn't opened her yap, an implication that stretches credulity to the breaking-point.
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Bush if she hadn't opened her yap, an implication that stretches credulity to the breaking-point.
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