How to pronounce breaks
Listen to breaks in real sentences, spoken by real people, in the original YouTube videos. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“breaks” in real sentences
995 clips in the index · 319 American · 676 British. Clips come from parliamentary and government channels under open licences.
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breaks for the data: Natural Breaks, Quantile, and Equal Interval.
Census Bureau · watch from 1:29 · hear it here
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breaks the rock, and anytime the rock breaks, you have an earthquake.
USGS · watch from 5:38 · hear it here
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What about carers’ breaks?
The Scottish Parliament · watch from 15:40 · hear it here
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- What happens when something breaks?
Smithsonian Air & Space · watch from 24:14 · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of breaks. Conversation gives you the stress, the vowel reduction and the speed that people actually use — and they differ between accents. YouTongue plays the surrounding sentence, so you hear the word in the rhythm it belongs to.