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The phrase "able to break down" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing someone's capacity to analyze or deconstruct something into its components or simpler parts.
Example: "The engineer is able to break down complex problems into manageable tasks for the team."
Alternatives: "capable of analyzing" or "able to deconstruct".
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Nevertheless, Melton shouldn't have been able to break down Dallas's protection so quickly.
The report was not able to break down the deaths by combatant and noncombatant, or pro- and antigovernment forces.
"Seeing that part of it, being able to break down players, yeah, it was interesting to me," Madison said.
"It takes just one person to be able to break down that door and show it's possible.
Teachers must be able to break down steps and put them together for students, Ms. Weary said.
They are leaders and impressive in their sensitivity, informed thoughts and goals, as well as personally able to break down the boundaries through humor and clear talk".
But Bornscheuer said the discovery could open the door to the discovery or manufacture of biological agents able to break down other plastics.
"These guys were able to break down the politics surrounding my situation — the educational structure of the schools, why the black schools were poorly financed," Tyler told me.
I wanted to understand how this diminutive lady with a long gray ponytail and a no-nonsense demeanor was able to break down so many barriers.
Once again, he hadn't been able to break down the walls that surrounded him, and he was only too aware of how powerless he was.
"His men might not have been able to break down literal walls with their trumpets, but the noise eroded the enemy's courage".
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