brace
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When it comes to airfares, consumers might have to brace for turbulence for a little longer.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
Democrats and Republicans alike ought to brace for impact.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026
Companies across tech, transportation and defense are hiring again, offering a bright spot as investors brace for a big week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
The 19-year-old spent 20 hours in a neck brace before being discharged from hospital, having fallen from three metres directly on to his head in Friday's competition.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
He leaned over, palm on the bar to brace himself.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
With a full beard, glittering earrings in both ears and braces on his teeth, Wallace is the man on campus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
On a recent summer day at Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences, students ambled through yawns, braces and acne into their creative writing class.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
It comes as England braces for temperatures of up to 40C, with the Met Office issuing a rare red alert set to come into force on Wednesday.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
Forty-nine of France's 96 regions are under a red heat alert, as the country braces for sweltering temperatures due to an intensifying heatwave.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
I knew exactly why my stomach felt this way—it had felt this way ever since a certain girl with colorful braces had walked into La Cocina three weeks ago.
From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya
Freeman braced himself on his right side, which took the brunt of the impact.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Thousands of Spaniards evacuated from huge wildfires returned home on Wednesday while in France firefighters braced for worsening conditions in their own battle with raging flames.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
Jefferies equities trading analyst Jeffrey Favuzza said he believed investors were focused on whether IBM’s preliminary results are “a harbinger of what we are braced for” with ServiceNow’s and SAP’s results set for next week.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
Diana said she was braced for the day Ronaldo announced his international retirement.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
She hit the wall, and Chess braced for the bright overhead light of the Boring Room to come back on.
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Hawaii is bracing for what could be its first direct hit from a hurricane since 1992, as category one storm Lala churns off its coast.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
And then the name I had been bracing against: Lesbos.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
“The oil and gas industry came into 2026 bracing for a difficult year,” analysts at research provider Wood Mackenzie wrote in a note on Tuesday.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
Mr. Simms, a historian at the University of Cambridge, is no sentimentalist, and the tone of his book emanates a bracing realism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
He slipped off his horse and tethered him to the well bracing.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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