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Breakaway (Kelly Clarkson song)
Breakaway (Kelly Clarkson song): 2004 pop single written by Avril Lavigne, Bridget Benenate, and Matthew Gerrard for Lavigne's Let Go, recorded for The Princess Diaries 2, peaked at No. 6 on the Hot 100.
Breakaway Music Festival Carolina
Breakaway Carolina is the Charlotte, North Carolina edition of the Breakaway Music Festival EDM series, first held in 2017 and staged at zMAX Dragway since 2021.
Breakaway Music Festival Ohio
Breakaway Music Festival Ohio, also known as Breakaway Music Festival Columbus, is a multi-genre festival with EDM headliners held in Columbus, Ohio, first held in 2013 and produced by Prime Social Group.
Breakaway Philadelphia
Breakaway Philadelphia is the Philadelphia-area edition of Breakaway Music Festival, an electronic and multi-genre series held at the Festival Grounds at Subaru Park in Chester, Pennsylvania, since 2025.
Breakbeat
Breakbeat: the drum pattern from a song's drum break, and the electronic genre family built on sampling it. Also called breaks. From DJ Kool Herc's Bronx merry-go-round technique through breakbeat hardcore, jungle, drum & bass, and big beat.
Breakbot
Breakbot, real name Thibaut Berland, is a French producer and DJ on Ed Banger Records, known for "Baby I'm Yours" and the albums By Your Side and Still Waters.
Breakcore
Breakcore, also known as industrial drum'n'bass, is an electronic dance music genre that fragments sampled drum loops like the Amen break into chaotic, fast-changing patterns, emerging in the mid-1990s.
Breakdancing
Breakdancing, or breaking/b-boying, is an athletic hip-hop street dance from the 1970s Bronx, built on toprock, downrock, power moves, and freezes, codified by crews like Rock Steady, globalized in the 1980s, and debuted as an Olympic sport at Paris 2024.
Breakdown
Breakdown is a 2025 Spanish-language thriller series from Argentina and Mexico, directed by Bernardo de la Rosa and starring Martina "Tini" Stoessel, released on Disney+ on August 15, 2025.
Breakdown (1997 film)
Breakdown is a 1997 American thriller directed by Jonathan Mostow, starring Kurt Russell as a husband searching for his wife who vanishes after their car breaks down on a remote desert highway.
Breakdown and Bereavement
Breakdown and Bereavement (Sheḥol ve-Kishalon) is a 1920 novel by Hebrew writer Yosef Haim Brenner, his last before his murder in the 1921 Jaffa riots.
Breakdown point (statistics)
The breakdown point of an estimator is the smallest fraction of contaminated data that can drive it to arbitrarily bad values. The sample mean's is zero; the median's is 50%.
Breakdown voltage
Breakdown voltage, also called breakdown potential, is the voltage at which an insulating gas, liquid, or solid suddenly loses its insulating ability and conducts electricity; for gases it follows Paschen's law.
Breakdown: 1975
Breakdown: 1975 is a 2025 Netflix documentary directed by Morgan Neville and narrated by Jodie Foster, arguing that America had a collective nervous breakdown between Watergate and the 1976 bicentennial, reflected in films like Taxi Driver and Network; released December 19, 2025, 74% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Breaker failure protection
Breaker failure protection, designated ANSI/IEEE device 50BF, detects when a circuit breaker fails to interrupt fault current after a trip command and then trips adjacent breakers to isolate the fault.
Breaker Morant
Breaker Morant (Harry Harbord Morant, born Edwin Henry Murrant, 1864-1902), Australian drover, Bulletin balladist, and Bushveldt Carbineers lieutenant executed by firing squad on 27 February 1902 for murdering Boer prisoners in the Boer War.
Breaker Morant (film)
Breaker Morant, 1980 Bruce Beresford Australian courtroom drama based on Kenneth Ross's play, starring Edward Woodward, Bryan Brown, Jack Thompson; Oscar-nominated screenplay, ten AFI awards, Boer War court-martial of three Australian lieutenants.
Breaker of Chains
Breaker of Chains is Game of Thrones season 4, episode 3 (33rd overall), aired April 20, 2014; written by Benioff and Weiss, directed by Alex Graves; follows the Purple Wedding, centers on the controversial Jaime-Cersei sept scene and Daenerys at Meereen.
BreaKey
BreaKey is a 2003 collectible game from Upper Deck Entertainment, licensed from Dutch firm BreaKey International BV, in which two players twist interlocked plastic keys until one breaks; the winner keeps the loser's key and codes for online play.
Breakfast
Breakfast, the first meal of the day breaking the overnight fast, also called morning meal; defined as within 2-3 h of waking. Historically a laborer's meal, now studied for nutrient intake, energy balance, and school programs.
Breakfast (film)
Breakfast: Accept the Reality (Tamil: பிரேக்ஃபாஸ்ட்: அக்செப்ட் த ரியாலிட்டி) is a 2026 Tamil romantic drama directed by Gandhi Krishna, starring Raanav and Rosmin Thadathil, released 24 April 2026, a box-office flop that streamed on Prime Video from 24 June 2026.
Breakfast at Tiffany's (film)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), Japanese title ティファニーで朝食を, is Blake Edwards's Paramount comedy-drama starring Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly, adapted from Capote's novella, Oscar-winning for Mancini's 'Moon River,' and criticized for Rooney's yellowface role.
Breakfast at Tiffany's (novella)
Breakfast at Tiffany's is Truman Capote's 1958 Random House novella about Holly Golightly in 1940s New York, told by an unnamed narrator; basis of the 1961 Audrey Hepburn film, with three stories bundled in the first edition.
Breakfast at Tiffany's (song)
Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1995 single by Deep Blue Something written by Todd Pipes, about a couple united only by liking the 1961 film; first on 11th Song, hit on Home, UK number 1 in 1996, US Hot 100 top 5.
Breakfast cereal
Breakfast cereal: processed-grain breakfast food, hot (oatmeal) or ready-to-eat cold cereal; Battle Creek origins (Kellogg, Post), 12 manufacturing process categories, fortified, US market about $11 billion led by General Mills and WK Kellogg (Ferrero, 2025).
Breakfast Club (band)
Breakfast Club was an American dance-pop and new wave band from New York, best known for the 1987 hit "Right On Track" and for Madonna's early stint as its drummer.
Breakfast in America
Breakfast in America is Supertramp's sixth studio album, released March 1979 on A&M. Recorded over eight months in Los Angeles, it topped the US chart for six weeks, sold over 18 million copies, and spawned The Logical Song, Goodbye Stranger, and Take the Long Way Home.
Breakfast of Champions
Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday, is Kurt Vonnegut's 1973 seventh novel, set in Midland City, where Pontiac dealer Dwayne Hoover meets science fiction writer Kilgore Trout; published by Delacorte, adapted to film in 1999.
Breakfast on Pluto (film)
Breakfast on Pluto (2005), Neil Jordan's adaptation of Patrick McCabe's 1998 novel, stars Cillian Murphy as Patrick 'Kitten' Braden, an Irish transvestite orphan searching for his mother in 1970s London; mixed reviews, Golden Globe-nominated.
Breakfast Television
Breakfast Television (BT) is Citytv's Canadian morning show, premiered September 5, 1989 in Toronto with Ann Rohmer and David Onley; now hosted by Dina Pugliese and Tim Bolen from Toronto, distinct from the generic breakfast television genre.