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broken through

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My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma. Franz Boas

Once you'd broken through that invisible barrier that separates one person from another, you were connected forever, whether you liked it or not. Tom Perrotta

The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse. Heinz Guderian

[A]t the end he had broken through frontiers of language and feeling that one had hitherto thought inviolable ... Kenneth Tynan

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