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Around this time, my dad taught me some self-defense—how to break someone’s grasp on my wrist, how to carry my keys when walking through a parking lot at night so I could stab an attacker.

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Talk about, and this was a big one for me, the fact that our police officers should not break someone's back when they arrest them.

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It was perplexing: Five hundred people had reportedly attended an earlier stop in Fayetteville, Ark. “Is it spring break?” someone asked.

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Carl Chegwin, whose mother also received the text, said he was left upset by the out-of-the-blue message which "was enough to break someone".

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And few targets are more deserving of such a direct hit than Britain's tabloid press, one of the few institutions nearly equal in capability to make or break someone's life.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

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