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• Now the Browns make a clean break, three weeks before the start of training camp.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2022
• Or might younger ones be less willing, or able, to make a clean break?
  — Jason Farago, Town & Country, 28 Sep. 2022
• The alternative is to make a clean break and vote to convict Trump.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2021
• Rather than stay and fight, Dickinson preferred to make a clean break.
  — Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online, 14 Jan. 2023
• Those who play pool, including Lee, said that is barely enough to make a clean break on the table.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Mar. 2021
• Rocovits convinced him to make a clean break from his life in the gig economy and go into business with him.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 14 Jan. 2022
• To make a clean break, Jelly recently got rid of his cellphone for several months.
  — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 1 June 2023
• Deprecating that hardware makes some sense for a company trying to make a clean break from the more limited, less capable hardware of the past.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 23 June 2020
• McConnell's speech was widely regarded as an attempt by the Senate Republican leader to make a clean break from Trump and move the party forward without him.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 7 Apr. 2022
• But western companies remain under significant pressure to make a clean break with Russia or be subject to the Kremlin’s whims, experts say.
  — Yvonne Lau, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2022
• The investigation could be harmful to an incoming president seeking to make a clean break from the conflicts of interest of his predecessor, even if Hunter Biden is found not to have breached any laws.
  — Katherine Doyle, Washington Examiner, 24 Dec. 2020
• By handing the reins to Zaslav, AT&T signaled its desire to make a clean break following a disastrous foray into entertainment.
  — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2021

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