: giving strength, vigor, or freshness
a bracing breeze
bracingly
adverb
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a chilly but bracing day
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Sometimes a bracing perspective emerges through formal play, as in a tight epic of a poem about an atrocity.
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The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024
The night is cold and restless, but the morning promises coffee and, more bracing still, tough conversation.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2024
Humiliating himself with his conduct interviewing Vice President Kamala Harris earlier this week, Bret Baier probably won’t find the bracing cold open of Saturday Night Live tonight very amusing.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 19 Oct. 2024
The differences between what the proofs indicate Goya originally intended and what finally appeared in the bracing first edition, which wasn’t printed until 35 years after his death, can surprise.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2024
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The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024
The night is cold and restless, but the morning promises coffee and, more bracing still, tough conversation.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2024
Humiliating himself with his conduct interviewing Vice President Kamala Harris earlier this week, Bret Baier probably won’t find the bracing cold open of Saturday Night Live tonight very amusing.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 19 Oct. 2024
The differences between what the proofs indicate Goya originally intended and what finally appeared in the bracing first edition, which wasn’t printed until 35 years after his death, can surprise.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2024
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“Bracing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bracing. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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