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
Bruce Feldman, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
Musician Cat Stevens, who has also gone by Yusuf Islam since 1977, is having to put the brakes on his book tour due to unresolved visa issues.
—James Folta, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 19 Sep. 2025
During 600 miles of testing, vehicles with the CCM software endured 85% fewer hard-braking incidents and spent 70% less time stopped in traffic.
—Stuart Dyos, Nashville Tennessean, 18 Sep. 2025
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Noun
But thus far, there’s been a whole lot of pumping of the brakes on the QB hype train.
—Bruce Feldman, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
Musician Cat Stevens, who has also gone by Yusuf Islam since 1977, is having to put the brakes on his book tour due to unresolved visa issues.
—James Folta, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
The run and the risks Race engineer Alessandro Tedino warned the attempt would be unsafe if the deck remained wet, citing the need for both maximum traction and peak braking over a very short stopping distance.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 19 Sep. 2025
During 600 miles of testing, vehicles with the CCM software endured 85% fewer hard-braking incidents and spent 70% less time stopped in traffic.
—Stuart Dyos, Nashville Tennessean, 18 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brake
Noun
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In 1979, five months after my seventh birthday, my father crashed his plane into an orange grove and died.—
Jon Michael Varese,
The Atlantic,
28 Sep. 2025
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The property has a 1,600-square-foot garage/workshop equipped with power and water for the hobbyist or car collector, and a citrus grove with Satsuma mandarins, oranges, limes and lemons.—
David Caraccio,
Sacbee.com,
27 Sep. 2025
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This is because Tianwen 3 needs more atmosphere to help slow its descent onto Mars for a safe landing.—
Andrew Jones,
Space.com,
1 Oct. 2025
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Demand isn't going to slow down, Shah predicts.—
Eileen Falkenberg-Hull,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 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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The François langur population primarily lives in the forests of China and Vietnam, where hunting and habitat destruction are major threats.—
Brian Anthony Hernandez,
PEOPLE,
27 Sep. 2025
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When in a forest, stay in proximity to shorter tree groupings.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
27 Sep. 2025
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The strategy has helped to transform land that’s naturally an arid mix of coastal sage and chaparral and deserts into an economic and cultural powerhouse.—
Andre Mouchard,
Oc Register,
24 Aug. 2025
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It's been fueled by a mix of timber, chaparral and brush.—
Helen Rummel,
AZCentral.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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Investigators were searching a remote and virtually uninhabitable area on Grindstone Mountain this week when a drone flying overhead detected something unusual in a thicket of trees.—
Zoe Sottile,
CNN Money,
20 Sep. 2025
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As more and more birders gathered to see the bird, the animal became more reclusive and hid in a mesquite thicket.—
Charna Flam,
PEOPLE,
18 Sep. 2025
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Generated when biomass, such as crop residues, wood, or other organic matter, is heated to produce clean energy, bio-tar can clog pipelines, corrode equipment, and release harmful compounds into the atmosphere if not managed carefully.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Sep. 2025
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The restaurant is like a library lounge, with bookshelves lining the walls, warm wood accents, and a swanky bar to boot.—
Nicole Hoey,
Robb Report,
26 Sep. 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 3 Oct. 2025.
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