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break with someone/something

to end a friendly relationship with a person or organization. In Nadia's version of events, she was the one to break with Howard. Barnhart broke with other tobacco companies when he announced that he was settling several major lawsuits.

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If, seized by an intolerable boredom, he had determined to be a painter merely to break with irksome ties, it would have been comprehensible, and commonplace; but commonplace is precisely what I felt he was not. Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context More results

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