Brasil
1 Britishnoun
noun
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State-controlled oil producer Petrobras rises 6% in local currency and state bank Banco do Brasil is up 11%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Rodrigo Brasil Choueri, an associate professor and marine ecotoxicologist at the Federal University of São Paulo in Brazil, has been researching the impact of microfibers on marine organisms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Unlike its central bank peers, Banco Central do Brasil is expected to cut rates.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
The first Englishman to play in Brazil's top flight, Lingard is enjoying his early days as a Corinthians player and last week scored his first goal in the Copa do Brasil.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026
In the courts and squares of the great cities ambassadors from Brasil and Benin, from Eireland and Corea mingled with tabaco sellers, with commedia players from Bergamo, with dealers in fortune bonds.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
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It produces silk, benzoin, lac, brasil, wax, and ivory.
From History of the Philippine Islands by James Alexander Robertson
The Admiral ordered two or three caravels to be got ready, and sent Roldan with a force to prohibit the cutting of brasil wood, suspecting that Hojeda would load with it.
From The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci and other documents illustrative of his career by Bartolom? de las Casas
Hojeda arrived at the port where the brasil is, five days ago.
From The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci and other documents illustrative of his career by Bartolom? de las Casas
He loketh as a sperhauk with his yën; Him nedeth nat his colour for to dyen With brasil, ne with greyn of Portingale.
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Eileen Power
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