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are braving

  • present progressive of brave.

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Now protesters are braving arrest or bullets as they demand not just changes in policy, but the downfall of the Islamic Republic itself.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 12, 2026

Followers from as far away as Australia are braving sub-zero temperatures ahead of the first date of the band's UK tour on Thursday.

From BBC Feb. 7, 2024

"I wanted to tell stories about queer joy, about bravery, about those of us who are braving... prejudice and ill-treatment to still be able to show up as ourselves," they said from their Johannesburg apartment.

From Reuters Apr. 20, 2023

Migrants have become so desperate that they are braving a 66-mile trek across a treacherous stretch of jungle at the Colombia-Panama border known as the Darién Gap.

From New York Times Jan. 13, 2023

Pennsylvania miners are braving subterranean dangers for 90 cents a day and living on potatoes and point.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by Brann, William Cowper