bracing
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Yet this scene, too, is ultimately reconfigured in surprising ways, leaving its meanings bracingly indefinite.
"Our analysis of nearly 10,000 patients reveals that simple, accessible therapies like knee bracing and water-based exercise outperform high-tech options like ultrasound. This could reshape clinical guidelines to focus on safer, lower-cost interventions."
From Science Daily
This week the Transportation Security Administration is bracing to miss a second full paycheck.
The entire industry is bracing for the possibility of missed games for the first time since the strike of 1994.
At the historic Bikita Minerals, the country's largest lithium mine, workers were bracing for a thin paycheque, with wages linked to production targets, and some were on forced leave, a worker said, also anonymously.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.