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
Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2024
This bike is loaded, from its slick paint job and available walk-in frame to a dependable belt drive and motor-sensing hydraulic brakes.
—WIRED, 29 Nov. 2024
David Prosser, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
In one corner, the quirky gal: Zooey Deschanel’s Jess, who decorated cupcakes and braked for birds.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2024
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The brake on the Buzz has two lines on it, like a Pause button.
—Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2024
This bike is loaded, from its slick paint job and available walk-in frame to a dependable belt drive and motor-sensing hydraulic brakes.
—WIRED, 29 Nov. 2024
Verb
Over time, the set-up might progress to more active interventions such as automatically braking a vehicle.
—David Prosser, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
In one corner, the quirky gal: Zooey Deschanel’s Jess, who decorated cupcakes and braked for birds.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2024
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Anagha Nair The rhythm of the harvest must go on for farmers on Lebanon’s ancient olive groves, despite the interruptions of bombs falling on all sides.Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 26 Nov. 2024
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The intimate property has 16 rooms and three suites, with grounds that include an olive grove and the Fiermonte Museum, with art from the family collection (an ancestor, Antonia Fiermonte, was a prominent artist and muse to sculptors René Letourneur and Jacques Zwobada).Catherine Sabino, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
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Nomura said slowed capital expenditures within tech, delays in the new Blackwell chip and the potential for growth being cooler than expected are all reasons to believe shares could fall off a cliff.Alex Harring, CNBC, 9 Dec. 2024
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Even if well-intentioned, over-regulation can leave businesses entangled in a web of compliance requirements that slow or even halt progress.Rizwan Jan, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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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 team is currently modeling at the level of the woodland stand, a unit of forest made up of a relatively uniform group of trees, to assess the optimal distance between trees.Alexa Phillips, WIRED, 16 Dec. 2024
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Sitting in ancient Cumbria—the Lake District is a mighty UNESCO World Heritage Site drawing over 18 million visitors each year, home to the largest national park in England, covering over 880 square miles of terrain with towering mountains, serene lakes, and lush forests.Lewis Nunn, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
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Here's what to do if that happens, or in any scary wildlife encounter Black bears are the only species of bear found in Arizona, and they can be found in forests, chaparral and desert riparian areas.John Leos, The Arizona Republic, 2 Nov. 2024
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West Coast/California California’s coastal sage scrub and mixed chaparral were a huge source of inspiration for us and can be found in different combinations from southern to northern California.Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024
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The best part of the farm itself was a dirt track that led from the back of the house to the edge of the property to a creek that ran swiftly through a dense thicket of trees.Lizz Schumer, People.com, 26 Nov. 2024
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Gradually forests and bogs give way to more salt-tolerant thickets.Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024
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The new store is said to be a big priority for the brand, and has been built around creative director Anthony Vaccarello’s vision of blending raw materials such as a black wood staircase, marble displays, corduroy concrete and black mirror walls with more classic elements.Rhonda Richford, WWD, 11 Dec. 2024
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Cave pearls are known to form around a nucleus, which can be made from a number of materials, such as rocky fragments, mud pieces, blue algae, wood shreds and animal bones.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
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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 21 Dec. 2024.
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