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
Amplified Content Studio, Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2025
But like the rest of the world, Mitchell hit the brakes on his 2020 plans during COVID-19 lockdowns.
—ArsTechnica, 22 Apr. 2025
Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 26 Feb. 2025
The switch between regenerative and friction braking during a single pedal movement can cause a vehicle's brakes to grab differently resulting in a slow or stop that is not smooth.
—Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025
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Noun
Check tire pressure, fluid levels, brakes, and battery.
—Amplified Content Studio, Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2025
But like the rest of the world, Mitchell hit the brakes on his 2020 plans during COVID-19 lockdowns.
—ArsTechnica, 22 Apr. 2025
Verb
The braking tail-light also boasts turn signaling, which is activated from the handlebar.
—Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 26 Feb. 2025
The switch between regenerative and friction braking during a single pedal movement can cause a vehicle's brakes to grab differently resulting in a slow or stop that is not smooth.
—Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brake
Noun
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Old pine groves dotted the valley and the surrounding ridgetops.—
Thomas Weddle,
Outdoor Life,
17 Apr. 2025
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To distract me from the bombs exploding around us, my grandfather described his former home and olive groves in what is now Israel, which he had been forced to flee in 1948.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Apr. 2025
Verb
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These executives are intermediaries, translating client requests to junior media buyers, data analysts, and creatives, creating bottlenecks and slowing down campaign optimizations.—
Tyler Shepherd,
USA Today,
14 Apr. 2025
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Singh and her collaborators estimated that improvements to modifiable risk factors could prevent or slow at least 60 percent of strokes, 40 percent of dementia cases, and 35 percent of late-life depression cases.—
Emily Kay Votruba,
EverydayHealth.com,
14 Apr. 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
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Over the subsequent decades, Earth Day has spread around the globe as more and more countries call for environmental regulations to protect the planet’s air, water, forests and wildlife from industrial pollution and greenhouse gases that are harming our climate.—
Andrew Torgan,
CNN Money,
20 Apr. 2025
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Meant to simulate hunting, the sport takes place in forests and fields and involves walking from one station to another to shoot—imagine golf, but with guns.—
Tyler Austin Harper,
The Atlantic,
19 Apr. 2025
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Wildfires are part of the life cycle of forests and the chaparral, which burn with regularity to regenerate themselves and have occurred long before humans populated the Golden State.—
Hugo A Loaiciga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Mar. 2025
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Within a few hours, what started as a small fire in the chaparral quickly spread to homes built at the edge of the wildlands, many of them big, expensive homes with nice views that had been built by people who wanted to be close to nature or wanted some buffer from the chaos of urban life.—
Jeff Goodell,
Rolling Stone,
13 Feb. 2025
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Patent thickets are when manufacturers file multiple patents on one product to forestall generic competition.—
Victoria Knight,
Axios,
3 Apr. 2025
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In the early days of graphic methods in statistics and the sciences, charts and graphs were meant to be efficient, clearing a thicket of abundant information in the heyday of print.—
Mara Mills,
Artforum,
1 Apr. 2025
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Despite their native habitat in moist woods and along stream banks, plants tolerate dry soil and drought.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
13 Apr. 2025
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This prevents wood rot should a leak develop in the future.—
Tim Carter,
Hartford Courant,
12 Apr. 2025
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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 29 Apr. 2025.
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