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Discover Ludwig"break silence" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English
It can be used in a variety of contexts to describe the act of speaking or revealing something after a period of silence or secrecy. For example: - After years of political tension, the two leaders finally broke silence and began peace talks. - The room fell into a tense silence until one brave student broke silence and asked the difficult question on everyone's mind. - The actress's publicist issued a statement, breaking silence on the rumors surrounding her personal life. - The detective's investigation was at a standstill until a key witness finally broke silence and provided crucial information.
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break silence
verb
To breach a norm against communication or against communicating a specific type of information.
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When it did break silence, the NRA's proposal to stop school shootings by putting armed guards in schools was met with derision.
The gift of a snapshot, book, or story meant to break silence that settles in after they leave the university, the silence that being here, a student for a semester in my fiction-writing class, doesn't break, silence of living ordinary lives we all endure whether our writing is deemed remarkable by others or not.
I stand with your correspondent Virginia Bayer (Letters, Nov. 12, in response to Noah Feldman, Oct. 29) in asking for the "silent moderate majority" of Muslims to break silence.
Rather than endlessly replay his most famous speech - I have a dream - it might make more sense to concentrate on his most pertinent for our era - Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence.
But wrestling with the radical pacifist message of King's "A Time to Break Silence" would have meant confronting the truth that the man the president was memorializing, if alive, would be marching against him today.
Lewis knew that King would declare his opposition to the war, but the intensity and eloquence of King's speech, titled "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence," stunned him.
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Furthermore, if his accusers were politically motivated, they would have broken silence before now.
Fred Wilson broke silence regarding Trump maintained since his election and will be donating monthly to the ACLU as well.
And so today, I am breaking silence.
– Demi Lovato breaks silence after suspected overdose.
Edward Snowden breaks silence to declare his mission accomplished.
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