Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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verb
Of a post or piece of media, to be shown to a larger audience than originally intended; typically either to a non-fandom community or to an outside platform.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: social media
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verb
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see break, containment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Originated in this sense the microblogging and social media platform Tumblr. Derived from the title of the horror video game SCP – Containment Breach, set inside a facility in which paranormal entities have escaped containment.
