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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Broughtparticiple passive of bring.
The Turks, possessed with a needless fear, forsook the walls, and could not, by any persuasions or threats of the captains, be brought on again to the assault. Richard Knolles, History.
The instances brought by our authour are but slender proofs. John Locke.
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brought
Brought is the past tense and past participle of the verb "bring." It refers to the action of carrying, leading, or delivering someone or something to a certain place.
Webster Dictionary
Brought
of Bring
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Brought
brawt, pa.t. and pa.p. of Bring.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
BROUGHT
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Brought is ranked #71678 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Brought surname appeared 272 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Brought.
95.2% or 259 total occurrences were White.
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'brought' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #454
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'brought' in Written Corpus Frequency: #602
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of brought in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of brought in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of brought in a Sentence
Remembering our past can be a healthy exercise. We should yet beware of manipulations of our memory. By sticking to things that torment us, we can be tempted to brood over what should have, could have or would have been done.(no shoulda,coulda,woulda). When we walk down the memory lane, we learn from the past and pick for the present the fundamentals, which can be brought into play for the future. ("Walking down the memory lane" )
A Chinese saying goes, 'A murderer should pay for his crime with his life, i hope Li will be brought to justice.
If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.
It's an emerging opportunity that Ebola has really brought to light, we're actively looking for public health departments that want this data and want to partner with us to use it.
Never has a competition case brought together such a geographical or industrial breadth of concerned parties. There's just never been anything like it, probably never has any company exerted so much power on so many key markets.
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