Breaking in a sentence as a noun

No matter how hard or long you worked, he could beat you at that metric without breaking a sweat.

Programming is breaking a problem set down, thinking step by step through it, thinking of edge cases, and making it work.

They will hire people, experts, who will find new ways of breaking in to servers they detect as having mail servers running on them.

And Google rewarded us, we entered the elite list of news suppliers whom google monitor for breaking stories.

The contest limitations rule out most of the likely attack vectors for breaking the protocol in the real world.

I absolutely agree that too many JS apps are breaking the web, and I love that Ember has defaults to make that not happen.

And you still haven't learnt the first rule of kernel maintenance?> If a change results in user programs breaking, it's a bug in the kernel.

The "backwards compatibility" crowd lost out to the "breaking changes" crowd, which hastened the switch to Web-based applications.

Sometimes better because we were not breaking ourselves trying to impress them with impossible deadlines that we would sometimes miss.

You can refactor and move around most Haskell code without worrying about breaking its surroundings because any dependencies are explicit.

ARMv8 is supposed to address some of this, by creating a large, compatibility breaking, change to the ISA, and having the processor switch modes to maintain compatibility.

The other tenderers were accustomed to dividing the work up amongst themselves at inflated prices, they didn't even know who we were and we received a lot of abuse for breaking up their little scheme.

Could you ever imagine a local retailer in your area breaking and entering into your home, taking away all your books, and then not giving you a straightforward explanation as to why they did so?

'.It's easy to say that being raped should be like breaking a leg: an unfortunate event that can happen during a lifetime in human society with all its strange and from which you can recover after some pain and trouble.

* You want to keep in mind that breaks in cryptosystems represent new knowledge, and that the enterprise of breaking cryptosystems is an issue distinct from the public policy concern of where NSA is allowed to deploy those breaks.

While you could say this stems from Java's enormous popularity, one interesting property of huge Java open-source projects is that I can usually crack open the code and quickly get a sense of how I could contribute to the system without breaking it.

Breaking definitions

noun

the act of breaking something; "the breakage was unavoidable"

See also: breakage break