brings

present tense third-person singular of bring
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as in costs
to have a price of the antique will probably bring at least $1000 at auction

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Recent Examples of brings Different Monsters Require Different Minds That brings us to today. — Jeff Degraff, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026 For property owners who poured their life savings into Camelot, the arrival of heavy machinery brings mounting anger over how local authorities handled the complex's long, troubled decline. — La'tasha Givens, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026 Friday night brings us just three games on the slate, and one of them stands out more than the others as Washington takes on Purdue. — Outkick, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2026 In the meantime, posting online brings the risk of having jokes ripped off not just once, but an indefinite amount of times, across accounts, and by all kinds of different bots. — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2026 Vo’s practice brings objects, architecture, design, history and cultural memory into new relationships, creating environments intended to be experienced. — David Moin, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2026 Dawson says this creates a more reliable workforce and brings living-wage jobs to communities where they’re needed. — Kathleen Toner, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2026 This brings the discussion down to cost and features more so than ever before. — Joe Osborne, PC Magazine, 16 Oct. 2026 Since 2025, a Disney+ deal brings Spanish subscribers 300-plus hours annually from Atresmedia’s Atresplayer. — Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 10 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for brings
Verb
  • Kolbe’s distinctive use of language brings to life this period’s wonders and difficulties, and her maximalist approach to metaphor creates many energetic images.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
  • That, in turn, creates incentives to manage the firm carefully with an eye toward long-term survival.
    — Naomi Cahn, The Conversation, 12 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • There’s a real opportunity in the fourth episode to do something fun, or at least interesting, when Tyson convinces Russ to join him in smoking hallucinatory toad venom, but no flair or flourishes emerge.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Costner cited a scene in which Dunbar introduces the Lakota tribe to coffee and convinces them to partake by sweetening it heavily.
    — Kelsey Legg, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Each of these cables costs a thousand euros, as per today’s prices, pushing up the cost of such a quantum computer.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 13 July 2026
  • Shipping experts say rural delivery costs more because drivers make fewer stops per mile, increasing the cost per package.
    — Barbara Booth, CNBC, 19 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • An April report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tracked nearly 17,000 Shigella samples, which causes Shigellosis, which and can bring on diarrhea, fever and abdominal cramps, collected between 2011 and 2023.
    — Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2026
  • Plus, an infected deer tick must keep its harpoon-like feeding tube in the bloodstream for 36 to 48 hours to transmit the bacteria that causes Lyme disease.
    — Bob Drogin, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Fielder persuades Holmes to watch it for the first time, on a laptop in the couple’s bed.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
  • While posing artfully in the store’s shop window, Klara catches the eye of Josie (Mia Tharia), who persuades her mother Chrissie (Amy Adams) to buy her as a companion.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Whatever proceeds Fairlane mall fetches at next month's auction/sale are to be deducted from the $35 million judgement against Kohan and the LLC.
    — JC Reindl, Freep.com, 22 Sep. 2026
  • There's no public benchmark for what a whole cluster fetches when the seller has no choice.
    — Robert J. Szczerba, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Haider and colleagues, reviewing hair transplant tourism for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery in 2025, estimated that the Turkish market alone generates around one billion US dollars a year.
    — William Jones, Miami Herald, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Radialc ontent generates approximately 5 billion streaming hours annually.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 11 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • In an email, HHS spokesperson Emily Hilliard wrote that every committee member satisfies the FDA’s ethics requirements.
    — CNN Money, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2026
  • As that churn suggests, none of these stories satisfies him, none proves sufficient to sustain a self.
    — Garth Greenwell, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2026

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“Brings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brings. Accessed 19 Oct. 2026.

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