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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Recent Examples of brake
As Route 66 celebrates 100 years of open-road adventure, very few road-trippers are stomping on the brakes in front of the Aztec.
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Assistant Editor, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2026
The long exhale directly stimulates the vagus nerve, the body’s primary brake on stress.
—Allison Palmer, Miami Herald, 23 May 2026
Back in the Philippines, the government is putting the brakes on jeepneys, phasing them out for modern vehicles.
—Itay Hod, CBS News, 19 May 2026
Lots of horsepower and no brakes.
—Gil West, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2026
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Assistant Editor, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2026
The long exhale directly stimulates the vagus nerve, the body’s primary brake on stress.
—Allison Palmer, Miami Herald, 23 May 2026
Back in the Philippines, the government is putting the brakes on jeepneys, phasing them out for modern vehicles.
—Itay Hod, CBS News, 19 May 2026
Lots of horsepower and no brakes.
—Gil West, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brake
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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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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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The federal government manages 57% of all forests in the state.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
30 May 2026
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There are courts for padel, pickleball, ping-pong, and tennis, and plenty of trails for ATV forest drives and guided sound-of-nature tours.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
29 May 2026
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Maggie spends her summer days sunbathing at Lake Sunapee and walking around through the town and woods of Newport.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 June 2026
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Lots of blond wood and large flagstones.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
3 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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Archaeologists found that the site’s foragers had crafted small huts from brushwood, weaving them into dome-like structures enclosing a central hearth.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 May 2026
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Here, the train rolls into one of Scotland’s most remote stations, arriving via a line built up on a raft of roots and brushwood because traditional foundations failed in the boggy ground.—
Rosie Conroy,
Condé Nast Traveler,
31 Mar. 2026
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“Brake.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brake. Accessed 10 Jun. 2026.
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