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
Jimmy Camp, Oc Register, 4 Aug. 2025
In any case, Congress’ love of stepping on the gas and refusal to ever use brakes made Keynesian fiscal policy unworkable in practice.
—Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 3 Aug. 2025
Paul Ridden
june 24, New Atlas, 24 June 2025
It’s caused by suspension movement, especially over bumps or during braking.
—Kristin Shaw, Popular Science, 31 July 2025
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Noun
Mechanics This includes the engine, transmission, brakes and more.
—Jimmy Camp, Oc Register, 4 Aug. 2025
In any case, Congress’ love of stepping on the gas and refusal to ever use brakes made Keynesian fiscal policy unworkable in practice.
—Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 3 Aug. 2025
Verb
There's a powerful headlight and braking tail-light combo, plus funky colored strip lights that can be customized through a mobile app.
—Paul Ridden
june 24, New Atlas, 24 June 2025
It’s caused by suspension movement, especially over bumps or during braking.
—Kristin Shaw, Popular Science, 31 July 2025
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And hidden away in a centuries-old pine grove, Hotel Pineta is an oasis for larger families, with double and triple rooms and an enticing, lagoon-style pool that meanders through the lush environs.—
Alexandra Kirkman,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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Droughts in Thailand and India boosted global sugar prices, while parched Spanish olive groves led to two years of soaring olive-oil prices.—
Mark Gongloff,
Mercury News,
13 Aug. 2025
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The group of oil-producing countries known as OPEC+ has hiked production to regain market share, according to Smith, and shows no signs of slowing after announcing plans to boost production again in September.—
Bailey Schulz,
USA Today,
12 Aug. 2025
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Leili was arrested and transported to Troop A, where he was processed on charges of failure to renew registration, reckless driving and failure to slow down/move over for a non-emergency vehicle.—
Kellie Love,
Hartford Courant,
12 Aug. 2025
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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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Access the boardwalk from either end using paths that wind through mangrove forests before opening to the 10-foot-wide boardwalk and observation deck.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
7 Aug. 2025
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These kelp forests help provide food and habitats for a wide variety of marine life, including fish, sea otters and seals, per the AP.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
People.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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The Pacific Palisades Fire, the largest of the state’s current wildfires, for example, began as a brushfire and spread through dense chaparral, a shrubland plant community common to the state.—
Jeff Cercone,
Austin American Statesman,
7 Jan. 2025
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In Arizona, wildfires in shrublands or chaparral can be fueled by invasive grasses, like cheat grass.—
John Leos,
AZCentral.com,
15 July 2025
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Behind him stands a little girl, less than half his size, wearing a red dress, a red bow poking from the thicket of her heavy black hair.—
Daniel Alarcón,
New Yorker,
30 June 2025
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Prospective buyers from these countries face a patent thicket, where a single drug may be covered by hundreds of patents.—
Nahim Bin Zahur,
The Conversation,
17 June 2025
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However, most rooms retain original elements that range from frescos and wood ceilings to original walls.—
Carley Rojas Ávila,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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Toy weapons: Plastic, wood, and foam toy weapons are allowed.—
Jenna Prestininzi,
Freep.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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During one expedition to what was once London, a young scientist, out gathering brushwood, unearths a small vacuum flask, inside which is a handwritten account of life in a small village called Beadle during the days leading up to the lunar catastrophe.—
Michael Dirda,
Washington Post,
2 Feb. 2023
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Bare dunes were planted with ‘brushwood and windbreaks, perpendicular to wind direction’ so that the dunes do not interfere with the canal system and irrigated farmlands.—
Azera Parveen Rahman,
Quartz,
27 Oct. 2022
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“Brake.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brake. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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