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The phrase "have broken down" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to something that has stopped working and has become unusable. Example sentence: My computer has broken down, so I'll need to go out and buy a new one.
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McGhee and Garry have broken down that silo.
I have broken down in front of cameras.
"I definitely have broken down over the year," she said.
As the machines have broken down, so has party discipline.
"She could have broken down at any time.
But relations between the pair have broken down over the sharing out of cabinet posts.
But the pair's fractious relationship now seems to have broken down completely.
In individuals with autoimmunity, tolerogenic mechanisms have broken down, resulting in activation of immune effectors against autoantigens.
The two-day summit at Sharm el-Sheikh could well have broken down in failure.
As the old command structures have broken down, many fighters, on all sides, have become bandits.
"I'm sure I would have broken down had he not been there.
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