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as in tributary
a stream that flows into a larger body of water
the Blue Nile, the Atbara, and the White Nile are the three primary branches of the Nile River
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as in department
a large unit of a governmental, business, or educational organization
the two branches of the U.S. Congress
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as in to radiate
to extend outwards from or as if from a central point
threads branched from the center of the spider web
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Recent Examples of branch
Lex Harvey, Auzinea Bacon and Matt Egan, CNN, 20 Jan. 2025
What’s happening now in D.C. is there’s definitely an attempt to revive the White House as an executive organization which governs the executive branch.
—David Marchese, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
Cade Onder, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2024
Getting breaking to Paris was a heavy lift, between a section of the breaking community that wanted to branch it beyond its roots, and IOC veterans who had to shepherd the group through the IOC’s Byzantine structure and requirements that would be needed to pass muster.
—David Aldridge, The Athletic, 5 Aug. 2024
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Noun
While executive branch employees must follow conflict of interest criminal statutes that prevent them from participating in matters that impact their own financial interests, the law does not apply to the president or the vice president.
—Lex Harvey, Auzinea Bacon and Matt Egan, CNN, 20 Jan. 2025
What’s happening now in D.C. is there’s definitely an attempt to revive the White House as an executive organization which governs the executive branch.
—David Marchese, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
Verb
There are entire sections of the game that omit the gunplay, instead relying on subtle gadgets, branching dialogue trees, and creative problem solving to progress.
—Cade Onder, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2024
Getting breaking to Paris was a heavy lift, between a section of the breaking community that wanted to branch it beyond its roots, and IOC veterans who had to shepherd the group through the IOC’s Byzantine structure and requirements that would be needed to pass muster.
—David Aldridge, The Athletic, 5 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for branch
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Strong winds and the weight of snow on tree limbs may bring down power lines and cause sporadic power outages.—
Nazaneen Ghaffar,
New York Times,
20 Jan. 2025
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By enabling refined dexterous control through enhanced sensory feedback, this research opens new pathways for individuals with upper limb loss to engage in complex tasks traditionally deemed impossible with current prosthetics.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
Fox News,
16 Jan. 2025
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As was the case throughout the CW partnership, the deliveries were hampered in large part by affiliates’ unwillingness to air the afternoon events.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
16 Jan. 2025
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In 2002, Richard Stanley, an American chemical engineer and former part-owner of the New York Yankees’ then Double-A affiliate Trenton Thunder, helped start a Little League program in the country while working as a volunteer there.—
Greg Presto,
The Athletic,
16 Jan. 2025
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By his own accounting, Lipscomb travelled eighty thousand miles on the Hudson and its tributaries during the past two and a half decades, or the equivalent of more than three circumnavigations of the Earth, all at a slow and steady speed of five or six knots, with the aim of seeing and being seen.—
Ben McGrath,
The New Yorker,
6 Jan. 2025
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Helene’s rains flooded the streams, creeks and tributaries that feed into the Nolichucky, transforming the river into a deadly torrent.—
USA TODAY Graphics team,
USA TODAY,
31 Dec. 2024
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The Alexander Police Department is looking for a suspect involved in a shooting that occurred on Shirley Drive on Saturday, according to a post on the department's Facebook page.—
Parker Mancino,
arkansasonline.com,
19 Jan. 2025
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Thomas cited the department’s experience at Democratic and Republican national conventions.—
Joe Marusak,
Charlotte Observer,
19 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Their attire and posture radiated an iconic, aristocratic style, exemplified by Vance's wife, who stood elegantly in her rose-pitch dress coat.—
Kristen Waggoner,
Newsweek,
21 Jan. 2025
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The Perseids appear to radiate from the constellation Perseus, which rises around 11 pm local time and will be highest in the sky just before dawn.—
Gretchen Rundorff,
WIRED,
2 Jan. 2025
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When this occurs to cells in the SCN, the brain has a hard time syncing to the time of day through the presence or absence of light.—
Cathy Habas,
SELF,
17 Jan. 2025
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As a result, residents and emergency responders in the affected LA areas can remain connected, even though the raging fires have disrupted local cell towers.—
Michael Kan,
PCMAG,
16 Jan. 2025
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When cooking, the agency states, always keep a lid nearby.—
Donna Vickroy,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Jan. 2025
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The same month as the Herald’s reporting, December 2012, the Department of Children & Families quietly implemented a new policy that required high-level agency approval before any child in state care could be admitted to a nursing home, or move from one institution to another.—
Carol Marbin Miller,
Miami Herald,
17 Jan. 2025
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Halting bond purchases and curbing the fall in interest rates could also help the People’s Bank stem a recent fall in the value of China’s currency, the renminbi, against the dollar.—
Keith Bradsher,
New York Times,
10 Jan. 2025
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At the time, Facebook was severely criticized for failing to stem the flow of misinformation, including fake news propagated by foreign governments.—
William Gavin,
Quartz,
7 Jan. 2025
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“Branch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/branch. Accessed 27 Jan. 2025.
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