brave
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“We are in a brave new world of breathtakingly high prices and costs,” Johnson said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
“The Hemingways of the world were out there. It used to be a badass thing to be a writer, and a brave thing to put your thoughts onto the page and publish them.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Whether you listen or not, here’s a quick primer on this brave new online ecosystem, and a practical guide for surviving it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
It would take a brave soul to support any claim for an Old Firm-challenging run, but in Stephen Robinson's first full season, they should go a whole lot better than last term.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Major Puff saw an opportunity to step in and be brave.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
Young readers will cheer for the doughty girl, who braves the razored depths to haul the baby dragon to safety in this satisfying, sumptuously illustrated fable translated from the French by Alyson Waters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
Hansi Flick's - predominantly - young braves were confirmed as La Liga champions with a 2-0 win at Espanyol on Thursday, having already won the Copa del Rey in April.
From BBC ● May 15, 2025
Pity the poor pedestrian who braves Seattle’s sidewalks.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 15, 2021
He’s a polar explorer who regularly braves the coldest places on the planet — Antarctica, Greenland, the North Pole — where temperatures can reach minus-50.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 6, 2021
Muhammad braves that one pretty well against the reds from Michigan, the yellows from Ohio, the purples from Minnesota, the oranges from Iowa, and the greens from Indiana.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
Ms. Crowther makes a good case that Monroe’s was a bigger, braver life than the headlines and gossip suggest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Nevertheless, the call from Angela Rayner, Sir Keir's former deputy, for Labour to take this as a "wake up call" and become "braver" was notably forthright.
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026
"If we want to make the change we were sent into government to make, we have to be braver," the Manchester MP added.
From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026
Puny and pathetic as Colin appears, he begins to seem like the braver of the two.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026
She was scared, but she felt braver than she ever had before.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
He is the loudest possible proof that you do not need a gun to be the bravest man on the hill.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
And when our best and bravest citizens are pushed to obey orders that they sense are wrong, the injury is compounded.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025
It’s the bravest step, Moore says, because it requires self-compassion.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 2, 2025
It was the bravest of times, it was the priciest of times.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2025
Two score of her bravest had risked themselves trying to capture him.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Mwiche Nalupumbwe, 26, was among hundreds who braved the morning chill to queue at polling stations well before they opened.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Protesters clashed with police as thousands of people braved stormy weather to demonstrate against a controversial private property bill outside the Argentine Senate on Thursday.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
Amid the ruins of intense Israeli airstrikes, Lebanon’s battered Shiite community braved a volatile ceasefire to observe its most sacred annual ritual of Ashura.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
Then video reports began connecting to satellite linkups, and international journalists who’d braved Russian checkpoints got west and filed their dispatches.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
Audrey and I braved the mall two days before Christmas.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
While the thought of braving the outside world may feel like the last thing you want to do, daylight can be a saviour when you are tired.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
She goes from wanting to be a trophy wife with nothing to do, to braving a world that isn’t built for her, dressing and acting like she already has a seat at the table.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026
Are there places in New York worth braving a line?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026
"Most people have this image of an intrepid explorer braving an isolated mountain or some other remote place, and stumbling across a creature that no one has ever seen before," Chan said.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 9, 2026
Enlivened by this miracle, the dainty flowers braving the cold, he bustled about outside his log, setting things in order.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
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