as in braced
to prepare (oneself) mentally or emotionally
forearmed themselves for the championship game with the help of a sports psychologist
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She was braced against a near-vertical gray rock on a steep part of the mountain, with her back unnaturally arched and her face pointed at the sky, eyes open.
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Germany and Austria are enduring heat in the 90s, and braced for worse as the weather moves east.
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But that buy-in has to actually be fortified by something tangible.
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Or mountains of chips covered in mole or salsa fortified with chile pasilla in Oaxaca.
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“Forearmed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forearmed. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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