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Discover LudwigThe phrase "break down when" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe a situation where something fails or ceases to function at a specific time or under certain conditions. Example: "The machine tends to break down when it overheats."
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"Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch of random people interacting," he told me.
While certainly The Divide is a piece of intellectual property that deserves protection, things break down when it is used as bait to gather lucrative lawsuits.
First, most generalizations break down when applied to specific issues.
However, these methods break down when used to compute sensitivities of long-time averaged quantities in chaotic dynamical systems.
As Iris Murdoch wrote, our political categories break down when we read Weil.
This cage was designed to break down when illuminated by ultraviolet light.
But those rules break down when an industry operates as a near monopoly.
Most of these are based on proximity assumptions which break down when surfaces are close to one another.
A school is like an organism an integrated system that begins to break down when exposed to unhealthy conditions.
Beans do not break down when they are frozen; they retain their shape and texture.
I saw a black woman break down when she saw it and have to walk away.
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