[Ads-l] Can you snap your own go streak?

Dan Goncharoff thegonch at GMAIL.COM
Sun Jul 3 20:04:25 UTC 2022


Seen in an email from the NYTimes:

"World No. 1 Iga Świątek snapped her 37-match win streak with a third-round
loss at Wimbledon on Saturday."

Can you snap your own good streak?

You can snap your bad streak. You can snap someone else's streak. I have
never seen "snap" used for one's own good streak. (I would use "break" or
"ended".)

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