Break and Show

Break

Break verb - To cause to separate into pieces usually suddenly or forcibly.

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Show and break are semantically related. in lucky happening topic. In some cases you can use "Show" instead the word "Break" as a verb or a noun.

Nearby Words: breach, breakdown, breaking, breakup, breakable

Show verb - To come into view.

Usage example: another car showed just as we were thinking we'd have the whole place to ourselves

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Break and show are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Break" instead the word "Show" as a verb or a noun.

Nearby Words: showy, showed, showing, showcase, shown

good	good break	good show
full	full break	full show
best	best break	best show
long	long break	long show
Other adjectives: short, complete, certain, fake, single, actual, entire, real, serious, little, main, famous, new, final, classic, next, last, magical, didn't.

When a show does this too often, especially if it also tends to return from the break and review what just happened before the break before the resolution.

Source: Commercial Break Cliffhanger
And this is coming from a show that ends every commercial break with a cliffhanger.

Source: Series / Prison Break
Viewers Are Goldfish: Every time the show comes back from commercial break it recaps events that happened just before the break and usually recycles some footage.

Source: Series / Hell's Kitchen

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