break it up

Example Sentences

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It was a speech whose subtext was about how great the American people are, examples of which he spread throughout the evening, not clumping them all at the end, which allowed him to brag personally for long stretches but then break it up, shifting to the excellence of others.

From The Wall Street Journal

"I think that in the near future, they are unlikely to break it up."

From Barron's

Lou Gerstner was the first outsider to take the helm at IBM, the storied firm that once looked so dominant in computer mainframes that the Justice Department spent foolish years trying to break it up.

From The Wall Street Journal

A dive into her idea notebook produced a dream about the Doors’ Jim Morrison for “Break It Up.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Collagen is a large molecule so companies have now started to break it up into smaller pieces - collagen peptides - otherwise known as hydrolysed collagen.

From BBC