Thain breaks into an almost-smile that says, No need to brace for disaster.

FORBES: No Thain, No Gain

With no time to brace for impact, she catapulted over the bike, landed squarely on her face and lost consciousness.

WSJ: Cycling's Occupational Hazard

Doctors can continue to do no harm, while researchers brace themselves for exciting, and unsettling, times to come.

ECONOMIST: Psychiatric diagnosis

Brace yourself and make sure no children are looking over your shoulders, because these hoodlums belong to a particularly nasty group called the Christmas Sweater Club and they got in trouble for handing out miniature candy canes.

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Emerging markets will have to brace for impact in 2012, no matter what happens.

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In 1977, Brace published an article that put the age of the Western overbite at no more than two hundred and fifty years which is to say that flatware and, with it, a significant change in how we chewed were all it took for the edge-to-edge occlusion that we inherited from the Neanderthals to be replaced by the bite we now call normal.

NEWYORKER: A Fork of One��s Own