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How to pronounce breach in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms break, go against, infract, offend, transgress, violate
Type of disrespect
Has types trespass, contravene, drop the ball, goof, infringe, intrude, run afoul, sin, transgress, blunder, boob, conflict
Type Words
Synonyms break, falling out, rift, rupture, severance
Type of breakup, separation, detachment
Has types schism
Type Words
Synonyms gap
Type of open, open up
Type Words
Type of failure
Has types breach of contract, breach of duty
Type Words
Type of gap, opening

Examples of breach

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An estimated 130,000 acres were flooded in Missouri because of the levee breach.
From the stltoday.com
Meanwhile Sony said the video game network has suffered a fresh security breach.
From the telegraph.co.uk
The holes in the levee are where explosives would be placed to breach the levee.
From the stltoday.com
International organisations have not yet been empowered to step into the breach.
From the telegraph.co.uk
The award includes $11,000 in penalty wages and $449,500 for breach of contract.
From the sacbee.com
A breach would threaten 7,000 acres of farmland and 10,000 head of dairy cattle.
From the sacbee.com
The diplomatic consequences of such an intelligence breach were harder to judge.
From the washingtonpost.com
In the end Australian-British mining giant BHP Billiton stepped into the breach.
From the time.com
Yet the sheer scale of the recent breach transcended the impact of any one leak.
From the time.com
More examples
  • Transgress: act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises; "offend all laws of humanity"; "violate the basic laws or human civilization"; "break a law"; "break a promise"
  • A failure to perform some promised act or obligation
  • An opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification)
  • Gap: make an opening or gap in
  • Rupture: a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions); "they hoped to avoid a break in relations"
  • Breach is an EP of 5 songs including three cover songs by Shivaree, released by Zou00EB Records in 2004. "I close my eyes" and "657 bed b" are the original songs while the rest are covers. The first two songs were later included in the follow-up full-length album Who's Got Trouble?...
  • Breach was a Swedish post hardcore band.
  • Breach (Major Tim Zanetti) is a fictional character, a superhero published by DC Comics. He first appeared in Breach #1, (March 2005) and was created by Bob Harras and Marcos Martin.
  • Breach is a 2007 American docudrama directed by Billy Ray. The screenplay by Ray, Adam Mazer, and William Rotko is based on the true story of Robert Hanssen, an FBI agent convicted of spying for the Soviet Union and later Russia for more than two decades, and Eric O'Neill, who worked as his ...