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as in raises
to present or bring forward for discussion
broached the topic of plans for next year's parade
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Recent Examples of broaches
Later in the conversation, when Anderson broaches DiCaprio’s actual age, the actor compares turning 50 to turning 35.
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Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2025
Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for broaches
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Hinson’s group empowers women leaders to do this via the Power Archetype Index, a diagnostic framework that surfaces unconscious leadership patterns and provides women with a personal roadmap of the four factors that underpin impact.—
Serenity Gibbons,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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More recently, though, its presence has broadened — the track now surfaces across posts expressing all kinds of emotions and drama.—
Xander Zellner,
Billboard,
27 Aug. 2025
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For Little, this raises even more questions.—
Sarah Durn,
Popular Science,
11 Sep. 2025
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In July, a geologist warned that an ongoing cluster of smaller earthquakes near the Nicobar Islands could signal a volcanic eruption in the Andaman Sea, which raises fears of another tsunami.—
M. Rajshekhar,
Time,
11 Sep. 2025
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Nuestra Cartagena emerges as a collaborative effort to navigate those upsides and downsides as equitably and sustainably as possible, in a way that keeps all of Cartagena's communities in mind.—
Carley Rojas Ávila,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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But the more these breakaways happen in the context of a film, the quicker a pattern emerges where critical moments are undercut by multiple breaks that drag things out to a not-so-welcome 155 minute runtime.—
David Opie,
IndieWire,
10 Sep. 2025
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This 2023 sci-fi slasher introduces us to Jamie (Kiernan Shipka) and her mom, Pam (Julie Bowen).—
Catherine Santino,
PEOPLE,
6 Sep. 2025
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The film soon fast-forwards two years and introduces other recognizable faces — Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, etc.—
Will Harris,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Sep. 2025
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This article discusses memory and chip and system design talks at the 2025 AI Infra Summit in Santa Clara, CA by Kove, Pliops and Cadence.—
Thomas Coughlin,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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This article discusses the first four episodes of Prime Video’s The Girlfriend.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Broaches.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/broaches. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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