Communication

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Kashmir is no longer the bone of contention, but a bridge between India and Pakistan. (Google)

The Baltic Sea had always been an attractive bone of contention between various greedy imperialisms, which were as tides to an otherwise almost tideless sea. (Google)

"Practically all paleontological discoveries can be described as bones of contention," says British anthropologist John Napier. (Google)

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Thank God, it wasn't he who had to break the news to the woman that her husband and her daughter had both been killed in the car crash that had fractured her skull. (NBC)

Vicky searched the house for Seth, to break the news that she was leaving. (NBC)

If their naivety is to be believed, they're in for more painful disillusionment when someone can bear to break the news to them that the tooth fairy doesn't exist and that the singing Madonna is no virgin. (NBC)

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If you are feeling bad about it, end the affair, and never breathe a word of it to me. The less I know, the happier I am. (Google)

As they made their way to town they vowed to not breathe a word concerning their gold find and they kept their word. (Google)

But we do not breathe a word, not even to our editors. We are the soul of discretion. (Google)