Thesaurus results for BROKEN OUT

broken out

verb

past participle of break out

as in erupted

to develop suddenly and violently in the wake of news reports of deaths from the flu, panic broke out, and there was a mad rush for flu shots

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Recent Examples of broken out Edouard Julien, who’s broken out of a deep May slump, went 2 for 3 with a double and drove in three runs. — Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 10 June 2026 But soon enough, the tiny fire truck has lost its wheels and a fight has broken out over whose Care Bears keychain is cooler, though neither of my children has ever owned a key. — Mandy Len Catron, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2026 Like his sister, Norm MacLean (Moises Arias) has also broken out of the vaults and come face to face with the Wasteland. — Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 4 Feb. 2026 In Minneapolis, confrontations have broken out and multiple protesters have been arrested. — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 15 Jan. 2026 The clash between Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has broken out into public view at times. — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2026 In 1986, Turner launched the Goodwill Games, an international competition meant to bypass the Cold War fights that had broken out over the Olympics. — David Folkenflik, NPR, 6 May 2026 As the chart shows, it has also consistently broken out of consolidation patterns from a relative-strength perspective, with those breakouts versus XLV leading to meaningful upside follow-through. — Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 17 June 2026 YouTube generated more than $60 billion in revenue for 2025, including both advertising and subscriptions, the first time parent company Alphabet has broken out total revenue for the platform. — Todd Spangler, Variety, 4 Feb. 2026

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Nine months after the revolution, the war between Iran and Iraq erupted in September 1980, lasting eight years and costing more than a million lives.

— Mahsa Alimardani, Time, 6 July 2026
Spontaneous applause erupted — and even some tears were shed — at the battered parking structure where Gil had been entombed since the two temblors struck within seconds of each other on June 24.

— Mery Mogollón, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2026