as in creek
a natural body of running water smaller than a river
there are tiny fish and frogs in that brook
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as in to tolerate
to put up with (something painful or difficult)
I will not brook insults from my own employees
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The Week Us, theweek, 19 Jan. 2024
Indeed, the dazzling variety of content available to consumers helps disguise the reality that the paramount authorities in these countries brook no dissent.
—Christopher Walker, Foreign Affairs, 16 Nov. 2017
Adam Goodheart, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Sep. 2023
In this way, the book’s plot recalls classic tropes of the Cold War: a cruel, power-hungry communist party-state, unwilling to brook any popular challenge to its authority, oppresses its people and provokes heroic resistance.
—Susan Greenhalgh and Xiying Wang, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2019
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Noun
Sign up The property, five minutes from town, includes an 18th-century mill keeper’s house turned guesthouse, an antique barn, a rec room, a pool, sports courts, gardens, a fishable brook, and access to hiking trails.
—The Week Us, theweek, 19 Jan. 2024
Indeed, the dazzling variety of content available to consumers helps disguise the reality that the paramount authorities in these countries brook no dissent.
—Christopher Walker, Foreign Affairs, 16 Nov. 2017
Verb
The colony’s superintendent at the time was not a man to brook any such insubordination.
—Adam Goodheart, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Sep. 2023
In this way, the book’s plot recalls classic tropes of the Cold War: a cruel, power-hungry communist party-state, unwilling to brook any popular challenge to its authority, oppresses its people and provokes heroic resistance.
—Susan Greenhalgh and Xiying Wang, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2019
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Dive team members for the Houston police department then searched beneath the surface of the muddy creek.Ayana Bryant, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2024
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Ike Walker, whose business and pleasure in life is the manufacture of fishing lures, was somewhere south of us on the creek fishing with Grady Blanton and Milton Pace.Charles Elliott, Outdoor Life, 27 June 2024
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Advertisement Both a freshwater and brackish species, the golden mussel can tolerate wide ranges in salinity, temperature and pH levels, and cantravel much farther than people might think.Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2024
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People with this condition may tolerate foods with balanced levels of glucose and fructose, as glucose enhances fructose absorption.Devineé Lingo, M.S., Health, 1 Nov. 2024
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Beginner stretches include standing awareness, head hang, and supine spinal twist.Michelle Pugle, Verywell Health, 24 Oct. 2024
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It was placed exactly where the hundred-foot steel tower that held the bomb once stood.Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024
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Those selected for key positions like the Secretary of Defense, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, CIA Director, Attorney General, Secretary of State, to name a few, will determine the quality of American leadership in the world for the next four years with long enduring implications.Sam Nunn, TIME, 2 Nov. 2024
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By stark contrast, Manchester United have endured a dreadful start to their Premier League campaign.Sam Meredith, CNBC, 1 Nov. 2024
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If my dad had accepted my grandparents and extended family wanted to see us, their actual family, none of this would have happened.Erin Clack, People.com, 27 Oct. 2024
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Four years ago, Donald Trump became the first president in American history to refuse to accept the results of a presidential election, and to do everything in his power to try to overturn the will of the people.ABC News, ABC News, 27 Oct. 2024
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After the Nabataean Kingdom lost control to Trajan’s legions in 106 CE, however, the Romans took control of the trade networks and the Nabataeans lost their source of wealth.Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 28 Oct. 2024
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However, as the quest to be superior to competitors continues to drive retailers, especially as AI’s capabilities get more refined, personalization has taken its spot at center stage.Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 28 Oct. 2024
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The Stenography Office isn't disputing the apostrophe that was added in by the White House press and communications team, rather how it was handled.Justin Gomez, ABC News, 1 Nov. 2024
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Arkansas State Police investigators are handling a probe into the man's death.Penny Weaver, arkansasonline.com, 1 Nov. 2024
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Riley, who was born and raised in the hamlet of just over 5,000, said it’s always been a difficult place to live.Mackenzie Happe and Zoë Todd, CNN, 26 Oct. 2024
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Four years later, their youngest child, son Carlo, was born.Emily Weaver, People.com, 26 Oct. 2024
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“Brook.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brook. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.
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