Break
Break verb - Be released or become known; of news.
Usage example: News of her death broke in the morning
Discover
Discover verb - Make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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The rest of the game shifts back to Toku as he and Enril attempt to discover and break the curse befalling the Melodia City and also affecting his mother, Magdi.
Source: Video Game / Lost Winds -
On completing the game, the hacker refuses all reward and instead goes back to his computer... Only to break into a fresh network and discover yet more genetic experiments going on elsewhere.
Source: The End... Or Is It? -
Neither did certified experts, at least until they break out the "Deep Runic Scanner" - and discover fractal patterns for the first time in their universe.
Source: Webcomic / Tales of the Questor
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