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As we climbed the terraced pools of the West Kill, I concentrated on keeping my cast short and precise until I caught my first brook trout, or “brookie.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

Large-scale protests are rare in Vietnam, where the communist authorities brook little dissent.

From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026

Four of the offences included discharging higher-than-permitted levels of cyanide into the Manchester Ship Canal, a nearby river and a local brook.

From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2026

But because she’s telling the worst men what they want to hear, Stuckey has created space for herself to live out the usually male role of being the pompous bully who will brook no dissent.

From Salon ● Dec. 1, 2025

On some warm day later in the spring, when Timothy was strong again, they would move to the summer house down by the brook.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien

It is a remarkable climb-down, underscoring the difficulty of spurring the transition to electric vehicles even in an authoritarian country that brooks little dissent.

From Barron's ● May 19, 2026

His strictly regulated factory model brooks no challenges from his workers, and he employs an enormous security force to snuff out the merest whisper of pro-union sentiment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026

But it is a distorted, selective history that brooks no dissent.

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2024

I returned with a guy I know who used to be a pastry chef at Michelin-starred restaurants, who brooks no foolishness in matters food or otherwise.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2022

From various and uncountable tributaries, in creeks and brooks of color and motion, the parts of this river had joined, become one mother current, and flowed on.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

Critics say Kainerugaba has brooked little opposition in the country, acting decisively against anyone perceived as a threat to his father's administration.

From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2026

Gottheimer quickly admitted to fabricating the post but brooked no argument over his Boss bona fides.

From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2024

But he also said no dissent would be brooked, urging young people “not to spoil their paths in life” and “not to poison the lives of loved ones.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2022

How can his colleagues have brooked such a thing?

From Washington Times ● Apr. 13, 2021

Her eyes darkened as though her pupils had engulfed her irises, and Sarai felt it coming, the response that brooked no comeback: Tell that to the other babies.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

Hayling had seen youth spark the Birmingham movement in May, brooking the blasts from the fire hoses and the jaws of the German shepherds.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 12, 2022

“It doesn’t really matter who wins from that perspective. And there’s just no brooking that divide right now.”

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 30, 2020

Not brooking even possible party division may pay off.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 26, 2019

Their candidate Jack Brereton sticks with unerring consistency to a handful of talking points, brooking little deviation and plenty of repetition.

From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2017

And now her voice brooking in my ear, in a voice I hardly recognized.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee