Brookings

American  

[brook-ingz] / ˈbrʊk ɪŋz /

noun

1. Robert Somers 1850–1932, U.S. merchant and philanthropist.

2. a city in E South Dakota.

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Example Sentences

“When a bank needs money in a hurry, that can help banks through a liquidity crunch,” he said on a Brookings Institution podcast.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 18, 2026

Cars and other exports were a "major bright spot" in the data, said Kyle Chan, an analyst from the Brookings Institution.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

Shibley Telhami, a professor of peace and development at the University of Maryland and a fellow at the Brookings Institution think tank, says the threat of a blockade was "bewildering and seems self-defeating."

From Barron's • Apr. 12, 2026

A recent Brookings Institute report, though, showed the opposite: that kids who use a lot of AI “are not thinking for themselves,” as Rebecca Winthrop, one of the study’s authors, told NPR.

From Salon • Mar. 30, 2026

Perkins pressed the switch which reduced the interior of the spy's wireless instrument to a fused mass of metal, and Brookings called DuQuesne on the telephone.

From The Skylark of Space by Smith, E. E. (Edward Elmer)