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bearable

[bair-uh-buhl] / ˈbɛər ə bəl /


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To make those rates bearable, credit funds structured some loans at the outset to let borrowers meet some interest obligations with noncash payments-in-kind.

From Barron's • May 6, 2026

The chair would make life’s unavoidable irritants that much more bearable.

From Salon • Feb. 18, 2026

The situation is particularly acute in the capital, Kyiv, where blackouts had, until late last year, largely been a bearable annoyance that residents could weather with power banks, candles and battery-powered torches.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026

The pressures of life, which in that moment felt unbearable, proved bearable.

From Slate • Dec. 26, 2025

The adobe houses of the founders had been replaced by brick buildings with wooden blinds and cement floors which made the suffocating heat of two o'clock in the afternoon more bearable.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez




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