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For example, a customer asks a jeweler to sell her a set of jewelry except for a ring in the set. But the jeweler says that he can't exclude the ring because it would make the set incomplete.

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to break up:

  1. Destroy the completeness of a set of related items
    "The book dealer would not break up the set"

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