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"brace themselves" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you are anticipating a difficult situation and want to prepare emotionally for it. For example: "Our team had to brace themselves for the game; their opponents were the current champions."
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They may brace themselves or sit down.
But they should brace themselves.
Republicans elsewhere should brace themselves.
So Yankees haters should brace themselves.
National Democrats, however, should brace themselves.
"Vodafone should brace themselves," O'Hagan said.
But Seaside Heights residents should still brace themselves.
Visitors to the Hamptons typically brace themselves for attitude.
They brace themselves for a swashbuckler, but find a chinstroker.
The Lib Dems also have to brace themselves.
Many New Yorkers brace themselves for more of the same.
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