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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Abbreviation of British English. abbreviation, alt-of

    "The authors, between them, have decades of experience teaching this material in Britain, Australia, Canada, and the USA. Although the two great dialect clusters of English – British and Australasian (BrE) and North American (AmE) – do differ syntactically in a few minor ways, the differences are almost always a matter of preferences rather than prohibitions, and they give rise to remarkably few difficulties for exposition."

  2. 2
    A diminutive of the female given name Breanna.

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"Paid leave is a popular cause célèbre among some political parties, but with so many people out of work, should it be?"

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