soft break

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soft break

noun soft breaks

A breakaway that is allowed to go from the peloton in a stage race because it poses no strategic threat to any of the main contenders in the general classification.
A soft line break: any of certain kinds of line break (depending on implementation details) that cause a newline (i.e., line feed plus carriage return) inside a single paragraph, rather than demarking a paragraph break (hard return). Near-synonym: soft return (sometimes synonymous)
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@misc{soft_break_2026,
  title = {soft break},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/soft%20break},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}