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The phrase "are breaking off" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the action of something separating or detaching from a larger whole, often in a physical or metaphorical sense.
Example: "As the storm intensified, pieces of the ice shelf are breaking off and drifting away into the ocean."
Alternatives: "are detaching" or "are coming apart".
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Bits and pieces are breaking off.
Some claim that the Labour northern heartlands are breaking off from the party, as they have already done in Scotland.
The skin is dark bronze and nubbly, studded with tiny crispy kernels and whorls, and already you are breaking off pieces and crumbling them in your mouth.
Now, rather than let the ministates that are breaking off founder, they may have a chance to make it anyway — as wards of the whole continent.
In Bangladesh homes are being washed away by record-high water levels and in Greenland and Antarctica huge sheets of ice are breaking off and melting into the sea.
The Iraqis have announced they are breaking off "cooperation" with the U.N. inspection team headed by chief inspector Richard Butler.
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He added that "we lose nothing" if relations between the two nations are broken off.
All coupled "channels" of the system are "broken off" when the vibration control design is based on the proposed control laws.
Dispersion occurs primarily as a result of the turbulent closure of the tip of the cavity, when small bubbles are broken off from the main mass of gas.
After many cycles of freezing and thawing lumps of rock are broken off the surface - this is called freeze thaw.
The exact nature of the proximal region is unclear, as the spines are broken off.
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