breakdown
(uncountable) Separation of a thing into components; decomposition, fragmentation; (countable) an instance of this.
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Born ~2009 · 1 year of recorded useSeen in the wild
"Why didn't she just leave?" Or perhaps ask: "Why did he escalate a relationship breakdown to literal warfare and arm himself? " #femicide #news #feminism
💸 Front-runners are stealing your profits. Here's how to stop them. A thread on MEV: MEV Protection Guide: How to Stop Getting Front-Run On-Chain 🧵 Full breakdown below. 🔗 Read on Buzzer: https://buzzerintellig…
Some advice I received during a mental breakdown is to be alone and use ai to solve my problems
Emilio De Bono just fought me over petitioning to replace the national anthem with a lo-fi remix! I am one Wi-Fi outage away from a breakdown!
Pete Hegseth BREAKDOWN on Live TV www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukOA...
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(uncountable) Separation of a thing into components; decomposition, fragmentation; (countable) an instance of this.
Whenever he was behind the wheel, he would panic at the first sign of a breakdown.
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(countable) Something, such as a vehicle, that has experienced a mechanical failure.
We saw a breakdown by the side of the road.
“"Why didn't she just leave?" Or perhaps ask: "Why did he escalate a relationship breakdown to literal warfare and arm himself? " #femicide #news #feminism”
— Bluesky· May 2026“💸 Front-runners are stealing your profits. Here's how to stop them. A thread on MEV: MEV Protection Guide: How to Stop Getting Front-Run On-Chain 🧵 Full breakdown below. 🔗 Read on Buzzer: https://buzzerintelligence.com/blog #MEV #Crypto #Alpha”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Some advice I received during a mental breakdown is to be alone and use ai to solve my problems”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Emilio De Bono just fought me over petitioning to replace the national anthem with a lo-fi remix! I am one Wi-Fi outage away from a breakdown!”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Pete Hegseth BREAKDOWN on Live TV www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukOA...”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(countable) A failure, particularly one which is mechanical in nature.
Whenever he was behind the wheel, he would panic at the first sign of a breakdown.
“Narellan: BREAKDOWN Car. Roads affected: Narellan Road approaching Exchange Parade. Affected directions: Westbound”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Oleksandr M. made a GPU-driven system in Unreal Engine with thousands of instances reacting to the player in real time using vertex shaders. 🧠 See the breakdown: jettelly.com/blog/breakin... #unrealengine #gamedev #indiedev #techart”
— Bluesky· May 2026“⚠️South Circular Road⚠️ There is a breakdown on the South Circular Road heading into Kilmainham. Blocking the left lane.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Narellan Vale: BREAKDOWN Car. Roads affected: Narellan Road approaching Exchange Parade. Affected directions: Westbound”
— Bluesky· May 2026“🤖 Building an MCP server sounds intimidating It's just another route in your app 👇 You only need three endpoints. One for the handshake, one that lists your tools, one that runs them. Full breakdown: https://neciudan.dev/make-your-app-agent-ready”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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