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
Lawrence Ulrich, Robb Report, 4 Mar. 2025
Excitatory neurotransmitters act like a gas pedal, exciting neurons, while inhibitory ones act like a brake.
—New Atlas, 4 Mar. 2025
CNBC, 18 Feb. 2025
Tweaking the acceleration, braking, and steering in the My Mode setting doesn’t improve the vehicle’s giddy-up.
—PCMAG, 6 Feb. 2025
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Noun
Vents atop front fenders expel brake heat and relieve wheel pressure.
—Lawrence Ulrich, Robb Report, 4 Mar. 2025
Excitatory neurotransmitters act like a gas pedal, exciting neurons, while inhibitory ones act like a brake.
—New Atlas, 4 Mar. 2025
Verb
While the jobs market always turns down last, Szilagyi remains convinced the Fed will continue to brake the economy.
—CNBC, 18 Feb. 2025
Tweaking the acceleration, braking, and steering in the My Mode setting doesn’t improve the vehicle’s giddy-up.
—PCMAG, 6 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brake
Noun
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The spectacle of corporations changing their posture in waves, like groves of saplings in a storm, may seem startling.—
Jeff Sommer,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2025
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Marchesi Alfieri At the intersection of Roero, Langhe, and Monferrato, in Italy’s storied Piedmont region, where vineyards meld among hazelnut groves and forests, the winemaking legacy of Marchesi Alfieri began in 1696.—
Michelle Williams,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Black Hawk helicopters carrying troops to the Assembly were slowed down because their superior officers did not get advance clearance to fly over Seoul, losing precious time.—
Choe Sang-Hun,
New York Times,
10 Mar. 2025
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Despite his being in his 22nd season in the NBA, James has shown no signs of slowing down this year. Co-star Luka Doncic will be relied upon more heavily down the stretch.—
William Lambers,
Newsweek,
9 Mar. 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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Those who have lived intimately, socially, and emotionally with their forest home understand this.—
PhotoVogue,
Vogue,
4 Mar. 2025
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Meanwhile, household appliances, communication equipment, and forest industry were among the worst-performing subsectors.—
Brendan Ahern,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
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In Los Angeles, some experts say there may be cases where clearing patches of chaparral around neighborhoods of houses is warranted.—
Lauren Sommer,
NPR,
11 Feb. 2025
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After burning, the chaparral is slow to recover, whereas invasive grasses are quick to move in.—
Anton Sorokin,
Smithsonian Magazine,
5 Feb. 2025
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Western startups seek to create strong patents at their core and to develop thickets of IP to support them.—
Jim Euchner,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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The thickets contain police officers, undertakers, insurance agents, attorneys, claims adjusters, benefits counsellors, human-resources workers, notaries, friends.—
Joseph O’Neill,
The New Yorker,
23 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The cozy interior is swaddled in leather and burl wood, and rear-seat passengers even got elegant picnic tables that folded down from the front seatbacks.—
Raphael Orlove,
Robb Report,
27 Feb. 2025
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Guest room rooms are appointed with oak woods, crisp cream walls, and plenty of Le Labo products.—
Vogue,
Vogue,
27 Feb. 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 12 Mar. 2025.
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