Example Sentences

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Some will be bracing for a repeat of the last mega-grocery merger, between Albertsons and Safeway in 2015, which was followed by bankruptcy, litigation, local closures and dismayed shoppers.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 19, 2022

The Capitals will be bracing for an offensive onslaught from Florida, and neither of their goalies, Ilya Samsonov and Vitek Vanecek, has ever won a playoff game.

From Washington Post • May 3, 2022

As Storm Eunice batters parts of the country, many people will be bracing themselves for the damage it might leave behind - and the potential bill that goes with it.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2022

Even if that doesn’t happen, it will be bracing, after a half-century of lying by omission, simply to hear America’s leaders tell the truth.

From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2021

Given the threat of tedium, and the stony desolation of the backdrop, some viewers will be bracing themselves for Beckett in space, with the added twist that Godot could burn up on reëntry.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 12, 2015