brake
Example Sentences
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“If it’s the end of March and we don’t hear that OpenAI has raised a hundred billion dollars, then the market may start pumping the brakes.”
Metals selloff hits the brakes on some of the year’s hottest trades.
Wild trading in metals markets Monday hit the brakes on a torrid year-end rally, sending silver futures to their steepest one-day decline in almost five years.
This drug targets PD-L1 and is intended to release the immune system's brakes so T cells can attack tumor cells more effectively.
From Science Daily
This process releases energy in a phenomenon known as bremsstrahlung, or "braking radiation."
From Science Daily
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
