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# How to pronounce "rulebreaking" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/rʌlɛbrɪːkɪng/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **ru·le·brea·king**
- **Parts of Speech**: noun
- **NOUN**: The breaking of a rule or rules.
  - *Example*: "His flagrant rulebreaking earned him a demotion."

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (8 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "rulebreaking" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "staff who catch passengers with oversized bags. Staff could earn up to €1,000 extra a year by identifying rulebreaking bags. Now, look, I understand there there Nick's laughing already. I know where this is going to go. There are rules, okay? When you go to an airport, certain airlines have certain rules about size of baggage that"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 6:04](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci8ALlmM0zE&t=364s)

### Example 2
> "that there was rulebreaking, right? >> And sometimes that's criminal rule breaking. So that could be violent behavior, but it's not necessarily so."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 35:53](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcK_zgJjnoo&t=2153s)

### Example 3
> "bastion of stability for world trade, a symbol of globalization, the um criticizing America for bullying and coercion and rulebreaking. Um you know, which is pretty rich because China's rise has depended on all three of those. Um, but he's nevertheless concentrated on trying to sound reasonable, trying to sound the grown, like the grownup in the room. And it's only more recently that"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 3:05](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFniFR0O7Bc&t=185s)

### Example 4
> "And so wrong is essentially a form of rulebreaking irrationality and bad choices. Right? We heard the bad choices. Um punishment in this sort of"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 57:02](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOl5o3npe3o&t=3422s)

### Example 5
> "understanding that my apologies meant and heartfelt. Uh I think that that there's a really really interesting story to be told one day about actually the investigation into party gate and the inequality of it and what actually but but on this inquiry judge how said rulebreaking by advisers and also by politicians had undermined public trust. >> I'm sure it did. I'm absolutely sure it did. And actually I think the thing that even though all the partygate stuff came"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 24:08](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfryBMVa2Xo&t=1448s)

### Example 6
> "spread around the world, the response from all four UK governments was simply too little too late. She says it was the vulnerable and disadvantaged who suffered the most and not enough was done to protect them. The report also criticized rulebreaking by politicians and advisers which undermined public confidence in decision-making and significantly increased the risk of people not sticking to the rules. Our first report tonight is from our"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 0:32](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5TqzKG81Vg&t=32s)

### Example 7
> "also had a terrible consequence which is that well people stayed at home too much when it came to their own health. >> Yeah. And more than the government thought that they would do and that's you know another thing that that comes out of it and also comes out of the the sort of rulebreaking is that it's almost like the government didn't understand that we were all doing what we were told to do by the government. And um and you know that's one of the things that"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 17:34](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIwb-Kis7Qg&t=1054s)

### Example 8
> "witnessed how play can break rules to improve both of these worlds that I live in. So just imagine if play, creativity, and a little bit of rulebreaking was in every industry. There once was a time in basketball where dunking was frowned upon so much that the NCAA banded for 9 years. Once"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 41:45](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ADHiUWjo6c&t=2505s)


## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce "rulebreaking" correctly?
"rulebreaking" is pronounced `/rʌlɛbrɪːkɪng/`. Syllable breakdown: **ru·le·brea·king**.

### What does "rulebreaking" mean in context?
The breaking of a rule or rules.

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