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break a record

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break a record
to destroy a previously set high record by setting a new one. The athlete broke all the school records in swimming. The league record was broken after thirty years.
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They hope to break a record of 55 days and 13 hours, set by two Norwegian-Americans in 1896.
It thus became possible for him to break a record Hank Aaron had established through an extraordinary consistency--a 20-year period of never hitting fewer than 20 homers in a season and never more than 47.
Any time I break a record, whether it's 20 or 30years old, and especially when it belonged to Janet Evans, it always amazes me and inspires me and excites me.
 
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