Citations:break the wheel

Verb: "(idiomatic) to end a pattern of oppression, inequality, injustice, or abuse"

 * 2019, Rebecca Thair, "Tune in to you", Happiful, August 2019, page 3:
 * Feel empowered this August, as you hear from our incredible cover star Grace Victory, who broke the wheel of her life in order to start a new cycle of healing.
 * 2019, Marwa Rakha, "Falling For The Wrong Person (Again & Again)", Identity, October 2019, page 36:
 * In order to learn how to break the wheel and stop this pattern, we reached out to our Relationship Expert Marwa Rakha to help us have a fresh start in relationships.
 * 2019, Yogesh K. Jain et al., "Health-promoting school in India: Approaches and challenges", Volume 8, Issue 10, October 2019 (link):
 * In today's scenario where there is a global transition in the incidence of communicable as well as NCDs, creating awareness about the healthy aspects of day to day life amongst the school children might just prove to be the most needed intervention to break the wheel and restrict the morbidity due to such diseases.
 * 2020, Carol Todd, "Time to change Canada's business model: UFCW", Regina Leader-Post, 4 September 2020, page NP7:
 * The head of one of Canada's largest unions says it's time to break the wheel and change the way businesses are operated.
 * 2020, Raymond Brescia, "Lessons From The Present: Three Crises And Their Potential Impact On The Legal Profession", Hofstra Law Review, Volume 49, Issue 3, page 613:
 * As with prior crises, though, not only should we look to transform the profession to respond to its current failures to uphold its ideals with respect to the current crises, but we also have a chance to "break the wheel" of this cycle–to bring about transformative institutional change.
 * 2022, Santiago de la Puente, Rocio et al., "Adoption of sustainable low-impact fishing practices is not enough to secure sustainable livelihoods and social wellbeing in small-scale fishing communities", Marine Policy, Volume 146, December 2022:
 * Yet, these strategies are all short-term, aimed at staying afloat, and are unlikely to increase small-scale fishers' wellbeing over time. Breaking the wheel, leaving the socio-ecological trap, requires systemic change [7,54].
 * 2023, Andrea Burgos-Mascarell, "Out with the Old: New Feminist Religions in Parable of the Sower and the Gilded Ones", in The Role of Religion in Shaping and Reshaping Inclusive and Exclusive Communities in Literature (ed. Kamelia Talebian Sedehi), page 96:
 * Finally, the fact that both protagonists are teenagers is worth considering not only as a mere feature of the dystopian fiction subgenre, but as a representation of the power of the younger generations in breaking the wheel and transforming society not only when they grow up and become adults, but from today.
 * 2023, Peter Čuroš, "Educating into Aware Subjects Instead of Unaware Objects", in Biopolitics and Structure in Legal Education (eds. Luca Siliquini-Cinelli & Thomas Giddens), page 24:
 * I do not see any possibility for breaking the wheel of the prevailing capitalist and liberal ideology or any kind of ideology.
 * 2023, Johanna Kylene Modelo, "Rise Of The Giants", The Vestige (Lupon National Comprehensive High School, Lupon, Philippines), August 2023-July 2024, page 13:
 * We have to try breaking the wheel and not just kept on going with it. Let us not settle for less. We are women, born with beauty.
 * 2023, Jonas Hoffström, "Tackling Systemic Inequalities in the Publishing Industry: Approach of the Big Five", thesis submitted to Hanken School of Economics, page 47:
 * In terms of breaking the wheel and the barriers of systemic inequalities Penguin Random House made the decision to release on an annual basis a diversity, equity & inclusion report with their global social impact to increase transparency and display actions taken.
 * 2023, Daphne Sicre, quoted in "Reflecting on 'The Work' of We Are The Canon: AntiRacist Theatre Pedagogy Workshops", in Contemporary Black Theatre and Performance: Acts of Rebellion, Activism, and Solidarity (eds. DeRon S. Williams, Khalid Y. Long, & Martine Kei Green-Rogers), page 123:
 * It’s the only way to break the wheel. Break the way someone has been trained, to get that person to realize what they’re doing, because even though they know it’s harmful, they’re still using these techniques and practices.
 * 2023, Verena Veulemans et al., "Editorial: Women in heart valve disease", Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, Volume 10 (link):
 * As long as this is not routinely performed, other strategies to break the wheel of gender disparity in cardiovascular science are necessary, such as supporting educational and network platforms, which are also well-accepted for male networks and collaboration.

Verb: "(idiomatic) to instigate or enact a major change; to revolutionize; to shake up"

 * 2018, Zach Cavanagh, "'Chip On The Shoulder'", Dana Point Times (Dana Point, CA) pullout feature, page 3:
 * Dana Hills isn't breaking the wheel with its set up, a 4-3 cover two look, but it allows its sturdy line with players like Adrian Sword and its secondary with Burlison to play to their strengths.
 * 2019, Emma Fàbrega-Domènech, "Problematizing the ‘Good Life’ on the Costa del Sol: Detecting Diversity in Privileged Experiences of Northern European Migrant Retirees", QuAderns, Number 35, page 71:
 * Cassandra a woman in her late 60’s was a hairdresser and owner of her own beauty salon in the  UK.  However,  she  felt  like  she  was  working  long  hours  and  never  had  time  for herself. She describes coming to Spain as a way to ‘break the wheel’ and dedicating time to what she loves, which involves a variety of sports, socializing, and spending time with her mother (Interview March 31st 2019).
 * 2019, Arti Sharma & Mohammad Salim, "Polar Code Appropriateness for Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency Use Cases of 5G Systems", International Journal of Networked and Distributed Computing, Volume 7, Number 3, page 95:
 * Polar codes break the wheel in channel coding area with its unconventional perspective of code construction than that of the traditional codes and become a youngest contender in the in the 5G race.
 * 2022, Paul Boyé, "The Figure of Inhumanism: Contemporary Speculative Philosophy in the Posthuman Condition", thesis submitted to the University of Western Australia, pages 43-44:
 * This is an example of Kant's 'Copernican Revolution' breaking the wheel of empiricism and rationalism, inaugurating a new form of transcendental regulation that is to say weak correlationism.
 * 2023, "There's an App for That", Future Waste, September 2023, page 36:
 * Afterall [sic], paper and pen has worked for hundreds of years, so why break the wheel?