break out of
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The husband-and-wife team's fifth straight US crown took their overall tally to seven and saw them break out of a tie for most ever with Meryl Davis and Charlie White.
From Barron's
“If investor confidence in the U.S. same-store sales outlook improves, we expect shares to break out of this two-year slump and climb toward our price target,” he wrote in a recent report.
From Barron's
China “clearly wants to break out of that,” Ward said.
With stormy conditions at Scotstoun throughout, Glasgow struggled to break out of their own territory in the first half, with Antoine Dupont and company threatening to take the game away as Toulouse put Glasgow under tremendous pressure.
From BBC
It is trying to break out of a laborious acquisition process and give commanders some flexibility to curate their own shopping carts.
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