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
Noah Feldman, Twin Cities, 28 Apr. 2025
Other car makers such as Hyundai, Nissan, Subaru and BMW make vehicles with Level 2 systems that help keep cars in lanes, change speed or brake automatically, but Tesla accounts for the vast majority on the road.
—Bernard Condon, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2025
New Atlas, 25 Apr. 2025
This is used to issue steering and braking instructions to the ECU.
—Sabbir Rangwala, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
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Noun
The repudiation of the earlier memos cemented OLC’s reputation as genuinely independent and as a brake on unlawful executive action.
—Noah Feldman, Twin Cities, 28 Apr. 2025
Other car makers such as Hyundai, Nissan, Subaru and BMW make vehicles with Level 2 systems that help keep cars in lanes, change speed or brake automatically, but Tesla accounts for the vast majority on the road.
—Bernard Condon, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2025
Verb
And day or night travel is catered for too, courtesy of a 100-lux headlight, plus a braking tail-light integrated into the full alloy fender to the rear.
—New Atlas, 25 Apr. 2025
This is used to issue steering and braking instructions to the ECU.
—Sabbir Rangwala, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
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The grove on the park’s southern edge, first set aside for protection by President Abraham Lincoln, contains giant sequoia trees reaching up to 285 feet tall, with bark more than a foot thick and dating back 2,000 years.—
Paul Rogers,
Mercury News,
9 May 2025
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Agriculture was always a big draw for the area, which once featured abundant citrus groves and fruit-packing houses.—
Patrick Connolly,
The Orlando Sentinel,
8 May 2025
Verb
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For Krispy Kreme, profitability appears to be the key reason for slowing the rollout with McDonald’s.—
Amelia Lucas,
CNBC,
8 May 2025
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Going to manual means slowing down your biological instincts.—
Stephen Miles,
Forbes.com,
8 May 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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Like a tree falling in the forest with no one to hear it, even groundbreaking marketing wins mean little if no one notices.—
Cheryl Ragland,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2025
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At the Glen Oaks Resort Adobe Motor Lodge in Big Sur, the rooms huddle at the edge of a thick forest.—
Christopher Reynolds,
Los Angeles Times,
15 May 2025
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Hazardous fire areas were considered to be at greater risk for wildfire due to their proximity to highly flammable vegetation including the native chaparral that is present in many areas of Poway’s open spaces.—
Christian Martinez,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
1 Apr. 2025
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Wildfires are part of the life cycle of forests and the chaparral, which burn with regularity to regenerate themselves and have occurred long before humans populated the Golden State.—
Hugo A Loaiciga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Mar. 2025
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Seek out a competent financial advisor who can help steer you through the high-tech thicket that is fintech. 3.—
Arleo Dordar,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
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The grizzly boiled out of the thicket and came plowing uphill at a dead run, ready to tackle all nine of us.—
Howard Copenhaver,
Outdoor Life,
23 Apr. 2025
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His wood back fence was gone, but his dog and house were fine.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
10 May 2025
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The nearly 660-square-foot space is clad in wood with touches of blue and plenty of storage space.—
Nicole Hoey,
Robb Report,
10 May 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 22 May. 2025.
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