bear
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The company’s efforts to differentiate its products further are starting to bear fruit, executives said on the call.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
The delays to the case have made what happened harder to bear.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Chip stocks spent just 21 days in bear market territory.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
The index had just emerged from the 2022 bear market, interest rates remained high, and many investors thought the new high was a great opportunity to take profits.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
Maybe the gap was too narrow for the bear?
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Here’s another factoid that could get the AI bears excited: Stocks in the S&P 500 are increasingly trading in opposite directions on a given day.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
The lakes region Mr. Hoffman describes as “magnetic and mercurial” is home to bears, wolves, badgers, otters and a surprising variety of other creatures, yet their ways of life are being threatened.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
In Pereira, home to half a million people, every single street bears proof of what happened.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Once farmers and ranchers arrived in California, their stock of calves and pigs and crops were a bear buffet, and that got bears killed much more often than any unprovoked attacks on humans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
When he was halfway down into the shack, Owen paused to take one last look at the battling polar bears.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
Don’t miss: ‘Her bank accounts were stripped bare by Medicaid’: My late friend had $20,000 in credit-card debt.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
That said, a bare message that simply states, "I'm out of office" with no details of a return date or alternative emails to try, can raise more questions than it answers.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
With little visibility -- battery-powered torches being the only sources of light -- she helped to deliver the babies using her bare hands.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
The day was sticky enough that the plastic adhered to my bare shoulder.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
‘Remember,’ she said, ‘if you find the stone tooth, don’t touch it with your bare, hands. And you’d better let me have the pouch with the river eyes.’
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
“He just beared down and made pitches when he needed to,” manager Dave Roberts said, “versus feeling it with the mechanics or being uncertain.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2026
Hurricane Otis interrupted tropical vacations for some visitors and put a stop to a mining convention in Acapulco, Mexico, as the storm beared down on the city early Wednesday.
From New York Times ● Oct. 25, 2023
Wrestling fans around the world beared witness to some of the most iconic moments in WWE history at Sunday night’s edition of WrestleMania.
From Fox News ● Apr. 8, 2019
“He gave up a lot of hits but beared down when he had to. He pitched well enough to win and he pitched well enough to lose. We just couldn’t score.”
From Washington Times ● Jun. 10, 2017
After a hesitation, he turned back to Kira and said in a low voice, ‘‘I beared them talking.
From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry
It's also worth bearing in mind the number of PIP claimants in the constituencies of several prominent Reform MPs - such as Boston and Skegness and Ashfield - is higher than the national average.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
"The discoveries from the excavations, especially coins bearing Homer's likeness, show us that the inhabitants of ancient Smyrna considered the poet to be one of their own," archaeologist Mehmet Akif Erdem said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
In all those incidents, bearing witness galvanized the public.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
The jacket belonged to his late father, whom he remembers hovering over a record player, bearing songs from a more thrilling world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Next day the companions crossed the River Ystrad and began bearing northward.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
Skubal bore down and got out of the inning with a flyout from Taylor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
One of these objects would be cheaply humorous; a gallery full of them turns into a bore.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
“There was so much fear around that when I was elected, and none of it bore out to be true.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Pete and Fran Gillam, who lived in Bédar, the village that bore the brunt of the wildfires on Thursday, were confirmed dead by their family.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Reader, I don’t want to bore you with every detail of our robot’s farm routine.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
"I should not hear from you: 'Oh, but what were they doing, or where were they, or what background are they from? What religion do they follow, or where were they born?'"
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
Half of the 30 children were born from procedures at one clinic, Dogus IVF Centre.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
And when the new regime encourages people to start speaking up in the future, while banning discussion of what has happened, another ambiguous rule is born.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Panettiere was born Aug. 21, 1989, in Palisades, N.Y.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
My only hope was to keep myself hidden so I wouldn’t find out when the baby was born.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
When a carrier strike group deploys for a historic mission, the burden isn’t borne solely by those in uniform.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
For the Andromeda team, the bulk of any potential losses is likely to be borne by the life-insurance companies that own as much as $35 trillion of these assets.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
This means many of the losses incurred in the attacks have been borne by businesses.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
He does not need to lift his team into the postseason, a burden often borne by marquee free agents signed to put their team over the top.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
‘Well,’ said she, ‘it must be borne some time or other, and it may as well be now.’
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
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