as in grove
a thick patch of shrubbery, small trees, or underbrush
built a small shelter in the brake to watch for deer
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as in to slow
to cause to move or proceed at a less rapid pace
braked the car sharply when someone pulled out in front of us
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Recent Examples of brake
Luca Evans, Denver Post, 7 June 2026
The improvement comes from the fact that when operating autonomously, semis typically don’t accelerate as quickly or brake as hard as when driven by humans.
—Alan Ohnsman, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
Utkarsh Sood
june 06, New Atlas, 6 June 2026
Her lawyers now argue trial counsel should have dug deeper and sought expert testimony to explain whether POTS could account for Shirilla’s failure to brake before impact.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 30 May 2026
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Noun
The brakes are already innate to Waddle, who Payton praised Thursday for his ability to stop fast.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 7 June 2026
The improvement comes from the fact that when operating autonomously, semis typically don’t accelerate as quickly or brake as hard as when driven by humans.
—Alan Ohnsman, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
Verb
Toyota reverses that setup here to provide greater rigidity and better resistance to flex under cornering and braking loads.
—Utkarsh Sood
june 06, New Atlas, 6 June 2026
Her lawyers now argue trial counsel should have dug deeper and sought expert testimony to explain whether POTS could account for Shirilla’s failure to brake before impact.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 30 May 2026
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No visit to San Fran is complete without snapping a photo of the Golden Gate Bridge, so wake up with a stroll through the eucalyptus groves of the Presidio, the national park at the foot of the bridge.—
Becky Duffett,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
8 June 2026
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Jones was found dead on July 5, 1980, in a grapefruit grove in Fontana, California, the Fontana Police Department and the San Bernardino County district attorney said in press releases.—
Saleen Martin,
USA Today,
5 June 2026
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Pairing coffee with food slows absorption and lets your body draw energy from the meal itself.—
Samantha Agate,
Kansas City Star,
12 June 2026
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Ease off the accelerator - Step off the gas to slow down the vehicle until the tires find traction.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
12 June 2026
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The two most straightforward of the trials will involve large-scale planting of trees and bioenergy crops, including Miscanthus grasses and coppice willow, reports Robert Lea for AZoCleanTech.—
Alex Fox,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 May 2021
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Another strategy, called short rotation coppice, involves planting fast-growing trees such as willows and poplars in extremely dense rows.—
Eric Toensmeier,
Scientific American,
1 Aug. 2020
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No one understands that better than a Reddit user who recently posted their prolific rose garden online, which features nearly 100 rose bushes in multiple colors and sizes.—
Kait Hanson,
Southern Living,
6 June 2026
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In fact, caper bushes prefer to be watered very sparingly.—
Tessa Cooper,
The Spruce,
6 June 2026
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Head west to Palos forest preserves, where the Outerbelt is part of a mix of paved and unpaved trails that weave west and north among woods, ponds, and hills.—
Midwest Living,
Midwest Living,
12 June 2026
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Despite gains in keeping forest standing, however, many other threats, ranging from climate change to potential legislation on the horizon, are putting the forest at risk.—
Gabriela Sa Pessoa,
Fortune,
12 June 2026
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For centuries, Native American tribes lived in the area, growing crops and building earthlodges, a circular home of earth and wood that was the center of family life, housing multiple generations, according to the National Park Service.—
USA TODAY Network,
USA Today,
10 June 2026
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Settlements and farmsteads spread across the state, and each year the timbermen marched deeper into the woods.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 June 2026
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But a quick peek at the Trailforks app revealed this gem of a ride, an 8-mile loop climbing through grassland and chaparral, past a reservoir, over Conn Peak and back down Whiskey Ridge, with enough singletrack and elevation change to earn it.—
Winston Ross,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2026
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Nearly a dozen fires have, together, consumed more than 26,000 acres of varied terrain in the region over the last week, in remote island chaparral as well as brushy foothills bordering neighborhoods.—
Alex Wigglesworth,
Los Angeles Times,
20 May 2026
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Amid a dense thicket of timber-and-metal stalls where secondhand retailers ordinarily hawked their wares, a runner of red-and-green astroturf cut a path toward a stage draped in the tricolor of the Ghanaian flag.—
Jasmin Malik Chua,
Footwear News,
8 June 2026
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While fewer regulations should be the long-term goal, providing a means for interested parties to better understand how to navigate the dense thicket of federal rules is long overdue.—
Editorial,
Boston Herald,
8 June 2026
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“Brake.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brake. Accessed 14 Jun. 2026.
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