brook
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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
Nadya Mirochnitchenko, an ecologist with the project, said the wildlife around the brook had transformed.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
Large-scale protests are rare in Vietnam, where the communist authorities brook little dissent.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
People kept stopping to talk to him, although they mostly made small murmuring noises, like the fake brook that runs through a suburban shopping center.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2025
I have to go to the brook for more water, and sometime soon I am going to have to go to the store, since I am running out of several things, including flour and sugar.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
“If they do it to them, they’re gonna do it to you,” Rodrigo sang, with a fury that brooks no room for despair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
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
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
In a voice that brooked no doubt, he said, “Azoth of this world does not affect mesarthium.”
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
“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
Mr. Douglas developed a reputation for brooking little criticism.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 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
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