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brought

American  
[brawt] / brɔt /

verb

  1. simple past tense and past participle of bring.


brought British  
/ brɔːt /

verb

  1. the past tense and past participle of bring

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  • unbrought adjective

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The visitors' scrum superiority brought them three more points early in a second half that began without Ritchie on one side and Underhill.

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The phonograph and the player piano together brought technological musical reproduction into the home in the early 1900s.

From The Wall Street Journal

A wave of Italian immigrants brought with them a new cuisine.

From Salon

Bethell brought some calm with his patient knock but England were ultimately grateful to Banton who had not lived up to his talents in his previous 36 internationals.

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His father, who he describes as a ski bum, won custody and brought him back to Norway, where he took up ski racing at the age of eight.

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