Break
Break verb - Be released or become known; of news.
Usage example: News of her death broke in the morning
Give away
Give away 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.
Both terms in one sentence
- The music (which was very obviously added in post-production) would swell up to the point of nearly drowning out everything else and blatantly give away nearly every commercial break 15 seconds in advance.
Source: Commercial Break Cliffhanger
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