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
Bestreviews, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2025
Bree, state police wrote, hit his brakes just before the collision, the warrant affidavit said.
—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 26 Mar. 2025
Richard Bishop, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
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
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Noun
When parts fail, the most typical thing to look for are faulty brakes.
—Bestreviews, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2025
Bree, state police wrote, hit his brakes just before the collision, the warrant affidavit said.
—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 26 Mar. 2025
Verb
And that's a lot of redundancy in all systems, not only braking and steering.
—Richard Bishop, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brake
Noun
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The resort is perched on cliffs overlooking turquoise waters, surrounded by lemon groves and ancient ruins, but beneath its pristine façade lie secrets of exploitation, hypocrisy and clashing egos.—
Martine Paris,
Forbes,
20 Mar. 2025
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Iconic Architecture in Puglia Photo: Getty Images Often referred to as the heel of Italy’s boot, Puglia is a landscape of raw beauty and intense diversity (just look to its rocky coastlines, ancient olive groves, and quiet countrysides for proof).—
Nicole Kliest,
Vogue,
10 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Ne Zha 2 is slowing down in the market, and another local title is also opening this session.—
Nancy Tartaglione,
Deadline,
2 Apr. 2025
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But in-migration (the process of permanently relocating to another part of the same country) to the two states has slowed down significantly since the end of the pandemic, and historically elevated home prices and stubbornly high mortgage rates have put a damper on demand.—
Jason D. Greenblatt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 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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In 2015, participating zoos began releasing the snails back into the forests of French Polynesia, marked with an animal-safe UV paint for tracking purposes, according to the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland.—
Lauren Liebhaber,
Miami Herald,
28 Mar. 2025
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And Dorian, despite the visual inventiveness on display, does go a bit overboard and overlong at times, particularly in a late, extended scene that makes use of pre-recorded outdoor footage that allows more than one Snook to race through a forest.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
27 Mar. 2025
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The trail begins among desert species like barrel cactus and creosote, followed by chaparral, scrub oak and manzanita.—
Dina Mishev Max Whittaker,
New York Times,
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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In December 2023, Jonathan Majors walked through a dense thicket of news cameras and climbed into the back of a black Chevy Suburban pulling away from the criminal courthouse in lower Manhattan.—
Rebecca Keegan,
The Hollywood Reporter,
14 Mar. 2025
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Nor has the United States’ growing thicket of export controls and sanctions on Chinese firms and technology imports extracted significant concessions from Beijing.—
Nicholas Mulder,
Foreign Affairs,
6 Mar. 2025
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Unlike other types of cabinet materials (think wood, metal, glass, etc.), laminate cabinets are pretty low-maintenance and budget-friendly, too.—
Daley Quinn,
Southern Living,
4 Apr. 2025
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Photo : Summit Sotheby’s International Realty The open-plan wood and tile kitchen.—
Tori Latham,
Robb Report,
4 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 7 Apr. 2025.
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