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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Ahjané Forbes, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2024
Over the wail of the train’s brakes, a guitarist burst into song, his voice clear and mellow.
—Monisha Rajesh, Travel + Leisure, 20 Oct. 2024
David Flett, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2024
Both attributed the drop in annual targets to struggles in China, while BMW also reported that issues with braking supplier Continental were also impacting its output.
—Owen Bellwood / Jalopnik, Quartz, 10 Oct. 2024
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If a driver loses brake function, this will increase the risk of a crash, the report said.
—Ahjané Forbes, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2024
Over the wail of the train’s brakes, a guitarist burst into song, his voice clear and mellow.
—Monisha Rajesh, Travel + Leisure, 20 Oct. 2024
Verb
In place of a discrete escapement controlled by an oscillating balance wheel, there is a rotating glide wheel that is electrically braked by magnets controlled using a quartz oscillator.
—David Flett, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2024
Both attributed the drop in annual targets to struggles in China, while BMW also reported that issues with braking supplier Continental were also impacting its output.
—Owen Bellwood / Jalopnik, Quartz, 10 Oct. 2024
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The notes of orange blossom and honey are designed to transport you to days of long naps in the sun, walks through olive groves, and the occasional dip in the ocean.Megan Wahn, Architectural Digest, 18 Oct. 2024
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At Showcase of Citrus, an orange grove in Clermont, Florida, near Orlando, the gusts from Milton bent some trees at a 45-degree angle, owner John Arnold told ABC News.Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2024
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Trump could slow the transition to a crawl, with potentially disastrous consequences for the climate, and the world.New York Times, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2024
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From the National Photography Museum in the remains of the 19th-century Burj Kebir Fortress to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Rabat is an opportunity to slow down a little and turn away from the commercial spirit that dominates so many Moroccan cities.Elle Benson Easton, Travel + Leisure, 2 Nov. 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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And once that happened, autocracy would seem as natural as the forest.Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2024
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At home in the tropical forests of Central and South America, these bats feed on various animals, including tapirs, mountain lions, penguins and, most often nowadays, livestock.Sebastian Stockmaier, The Conversation, 28 Oct. 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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Hedden and a colleague approached the Marshes’ property through the woods and discovered a human skull in a thicket.Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
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But the group doesn’t need to wade into that thicket.Bill Adair, TIME, 15 Oct. 2024
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Faced with these challenges, making the goal of creating firm value the scorecard for success is a north star that can lead marketers out of these woods.Stephen Diorio, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
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However, by that point, every bowhunter in the woods (and some crossbow and gun hunters, seasons depending), are in trees, too.Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 24 Oct. 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 8 Nov. 2024.
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