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[branch, brahnch] / bræntʃ, brɑntʃ /




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Eventually, the only-child grandchild could inherit 25% while cousins in the largest branch receive just 6.25% each.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

Australian brand Yo-Chi opened a Notting Hill branch in August and blew up quickly on social media for its range of toppings and "third space" feel.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

This would use silviculture, the branch of forestry that deals with establishing, growing and tending forests.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

The outcome seems to have marked the first time in U.S. legal history that the same case received both clemency from the executive branch and vacatur from the Supreme Court.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

But as Jonathan bent to pick up a larger branch, he realized how dry the forest floor was.

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret

By reconstructing the branches of the embryo's cellular family tree, the researchers could determine when different groups of cells began following distinct developmental paths.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

But the impact of the rise in energy prices is visible in the more energy-intensive branches of the industrial sector, where production declined 0.5%, Destatis said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Congress is one of the three branches of government, alongside the presidency and the judiciary.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

They’re even developing a routine: spending the night on the branches of a roost tree before following each other in flight at dawn, according to a Friends of Big Bear Valley Facebook post.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

Then I climbed up into the tree’s branches, and Rufus settled in down at the bottom of the trunk.

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan

"It just started from there really. I went down most Saturdays and Sundays, taking photos of the players and then branched out to other clubs as well."

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Other automakers have branched out in similar ways in recent decades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

EssilorLuxottica has also branched into hearing correction, with its Nuance Audio integrating hearing aids into eyeglasses frames.

From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026

I’ll always prefer Mom’s barbecued chicken, fried chicken and French fries, but I have branched out, trying an array of new, relatively tamer foods, ranging from albacore tuna to zucchini.

From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026

Our conversations eventually branched out, until it was the three of us talking about anything and everything for forty-five minutes at ten o’clock every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning.

From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender

The bright yellow coral, which has a branching, tree-like appearance, was discovered between 360 and 529 meters below the Pacific Ocean's surface.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

But it also means branching into new “AI adopters,” like companies in the transportation and real-estate sectors.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

The foundation runs a World War II educational program, taking Wantagh students to a museum in New Orleans about that conflict, before branching into 9/11 education.

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

One person sits in concentrated silence at each window, another perched in the back of the pick-up truck, ducking for the occasional limb branching from trees which rise around us.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

True, the passive phrase itself is heavier than the active, with four levels of branching rather than three, but it comes at the end, where there’s nothing else to keep track of.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker


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