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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

But one insult residents won’t brook is someone who doesn’t have confidence in better days ahead for the city no matter how dire things may be.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 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

It tastes fine; I know, I drink it all the time, though I get it from the brook at the other end.

From "Z for Zachariah" 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

The mountains and valleys, the rivers and brooks, the occasional deer or bear are as much a part of the mise-en-scène as the series’ complicated, yet essentially straightforward heroes and villains.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2025

The response of three straight wins when the pressure is on brooks no argument about their stomach for this fight.

From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2024

To make matters worse, many of the island’s brooks and streams emptied right into the ocean, where all that water became undrinkable.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

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

He brooked few objections from politicians or more pessimistic public health experts about the practicality of attempting to deliver full-scale medical services in places such as Haiti.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 22, 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

This may be true, but it puts officials at a disadvantage when they get into shaming contests with governments that are more than eager to point out American hypocrisy while brooking no criticism back home.

From Slate ● Mar. 19, 2021

“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

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

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee