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
Chris Schalkx, Travel + Leisure, 16 Mar. 2025
The Administration has ginned up a sense of urgency, doing away with brakes and guardrails by insisting that the fate of the nation depends on rapid executive action.
—Charlie Tyson, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2025
Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 1 Mar. 2025
On a faster urban-style circuit, the weight in the back didn’t ruin braking or handling.
—James Morris, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
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Noun
The latest, a coup d’état in 2023, put the brakes on growth.
—Chris Schalkx, Travel + Leisure, 16 Mar. 2025
The Administration has ginned up a sense of urgency, doing away with brakes and guardrails by insisting that the fate of the nation depends on rapid executive action.
—Charlie Tyson, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2025
Verb
Finally, air resistance will slow the ship below the speed of sound, and just 20 seconds before reaching the ocean, the rocket will flip to a vertical orientation and reignite its Raptor engines again to brake for splashdown.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 1 Mar. 2025
On a faster urban-style circuit, the weight in the back didn’t ruin braking or handling.
—James Morris, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brake
Noun
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Spring brings a lush wisteria canopy, summer ripens the citrus groves and autumn drapes the courtyard in gold.—
Spencer Elliott,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
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In 1982, researchers traveling through the Ayacucho region of Peru discovered a small amphibian in the mountain coffee groves.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
4 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Trump’s tariffs on global trade partners have sparked concerns about the possibility of a recession amid slowing economic growth.—
Sean Conlon,Sawdah Bhaimiya,
CNBC,
21 Mar. 2025
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Heathrow — where the U.K. government plans to build a third runway — was at the heart of a shorter disruption in 2023 when Britain’s air traffic control system was hit by a breakdown that slowed takeoffs and landings across the U.K. on one of the busiest travel days of the year.—
Danica Kirka,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Mar. 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
Noun
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When in a forest, stay in proximity to shorter tree groupings.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
16 Mar. 2025
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More than 50 percent of the 751 million acres of forest land in the US is privately owned, and these owners decide how their land is managed.—
Kiley Price,
WIRED,
15 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Pauly likens a lizard in healthy chaparral to a human running through the open understory of a redwood forest.—
Anton Sorokin,
Smithsonian Magazine,
5 Feb. 2025
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In Los Angeles, some experts say there may be cases where clearing patches of chaparral around neighborhoods of houses is warranted.—
Lauren Sommer,
NPR,
11 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Breaking through entails navigating a thicket of customer perceptions, expectations, and a general reluctance to try something new when the existing solution feels sufficient.—
Alexander Puutio,
Forbes,
1 Mar. 2025
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Many more are expected to follow, as representatives from DOGE make their way through the thicket of federal agencies and offices.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
19 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The British company that has made quaint old sports cars from bits of wood for over a century.—
Alistair Charlton,
Forbes,
11 Mar. 2025
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Updated with reclaimed barn wood to give the interior a warmer, more rustic feel, Belmont is part taphouse, part restaurant — and all welcoming.—
Michael Deeds,
Idaho Statesman,
11 Mar. 2025
Noun
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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 24 Mar. 2025.
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