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branch out

Phrasal Verb with branch
 
 
/brɑːnʃ/ verb [I] (also branch off)

Definition

to start to do something different from what you usually do, especially in your job: After working in publishing, she branched out into journalism.
(Definition of branch out from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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