Breakdown and Echo

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Breakdown noun - A mental or nervous collapse.

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Echo and breakdown are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Echo" instead a noun "Breakdown".

Nearby Words: break, breaking, breakup, breakout, breakage

Echo noun - A person who adopts the appearance or behavior of another especially in an obvious way.

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Breakdown and echo are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Breakdown" instead a noun "Echo".

Nearby Words: echoing, echoed, echoic

true	true breakdown	true echo
nasty	nasty breakdown	nasty echo
collective	collective breakdown	collective echo
little	little breakdown	little echo
Other adjectives: slight, minor, later, literal.

This later gets an Ironic Echo, when Whipple himself is replaced by a machine, after having a mental breakdown from isolation, alone in a machine filled factory.

Source: The Reason You Suck Speech / Live-Action TV
Meaningful Echo: "It was a curse, to be a god's son" "Death is nothing compared to vindication." Echoed by Talos, whose actions in Void Stalker seem to echo Konrad Curze's end-of-life breakdown.

Source: Literature / Night Lords
Mag is in a wheelchair, Paul is shot dead, Alpha must leave his new family, Echo goes through Hell (aka The Attic) and grieves Paul's death, Adelle is on the verge of a breakdown, Topher has gone through a Heroic Sacrifice, etc.

Source: Series / Dollhouse

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