bear
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But U.S. states along the northern border, such as North Dakota and Michigan, will likely bear the brunt of the levies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
The taxidermy bear, known as Boris, is a popular feature at the Museum of Chelmsford and is regarded as its unofficial mascot.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
Much like a bear hibernating through difficult conditions, these cells can remain inactive until the environment becomes more favorable.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
Sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes, the bear, he eats you.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
They didn’t dare risk the salmon cakes; the bear would have smelt them from many daywalks away.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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Bulls and bears remain entrenched in their robo-taxi opinions.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
The gameplay bears a striking resemblance to Tetris.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026
Bihar bears the greatest burden, but Uttar Pradesh is a significant and often overlooked part of the risk.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
The original 1930s factory building in town bears marks of shrapnel from World War II, retained as a reminder of Volkswagen’s Nazi origins.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
As soon as the bay froze over, the bears headed out to hunt seals again and begin their annual migration north.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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To aid the body in getting as close to stable temperature as possible, Eisenman said people can practice “skin wetting” by keeping as much bare skin continuously damp as possible.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Award show producers seemed to scramble for hosts that didn’t already have a record of ruffling feathers and could, at the bare minimum, garner a few chuckles from the crowd.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
But the very glaciers and mountains giving Nepal this massive natural advantage are succumbing to global warming - and last Wednesday's deadly floods have laid bare the risks to the nation's hydropower ambitions.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Our U.S. employees turn bare metal into products like aircraft components, fencing, windows, accessibility ramps, truck bodies, solar racking and thousands of other products.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
The lights were off, but rays of sunshine broke through the windows and illuminated the bare room.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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Making things all the more difficult was the culpability that some players beared for the team’s fortunes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2025
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
“The guys put their mind to it and beared down. Kind of: ‘Enough’s enough,’” Reid said.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 17, 2021
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
After a hesitation, he turned back to Kira and said in a low voice, ‘‘I beared them talking.
From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry
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On the campaign trail, Siegmund -- a former entrepreneur with a sharp undercut hairstyle and a huge social media following -- has been mobbed by adoring fans, many wearing T-shirts bearing his likeness.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
"He wanted a straight line to be drawn on a map to look like a straight line in reality if you followed a compass bearing," he told the BBC.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
She ate alongside her employees, who were almost all decked out in black slacks and pink polo shirts bearing her firm’s name and its hummingbird logo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
The patriotism of those years seemed earnest, even when it occasionally had the bearing of Sam Eagle: chest out, chin up, deeply concerned with the dignity of the republic.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
Laying their outline map of the island on the snow with the compass, he would sight ahead to a distant pass or peak and take a bearing by that.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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While in the field, we encountered bore holes from bauxite mining exploration.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
To some, the 2008 financial crisis bore out White’s thinking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
The engraved silver salver bore the mark of Dorothy Mills, one of just a handful of registered female silversmiths working in the 1700s, the NT said.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
He said social media platforms bore responsibility for not rebutting in time the content that encouraged last week's rush, warning it was "very likely" a similar event would happen "in any part of the world".
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
“Here is a marvel indeed,” they would say, and make comparisons with ordinary parents who sometimes bore a child of matchless brilliance; or with a devout couple who had brought forth a wretch.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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By 1996, Aguilar — who was born and raised in the San Gabriel Valley and died in 2018 from renal failure — turned the lens toward herself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
"I'm the only one born in Sweden here today. The rest are born abroad," said Johanna Bjorkman, a nurse at the NU Hospital Group in the southern city of Trollhattan.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
"His age, his game – he looks absolutely born to do it," former Chelsea winger Pat Nevin said on BBC Radio 5 Live during the game.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Brian Guillermo Dyson was born Sept. 7, 1935, into a family whose British ancestors emigrated to Argentina in the 19th century.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
They’d both been born in the old country.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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Continuing his evidence on Wednesday, Beggs said: "All of the interactions with the police and VC from my constabulary were borne of mental illness."
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Benin's efforts have already borne fruit after it introduced a policy based on building new, modern markets and reorganising large commercial areas.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
While the price that will be borne by these people and their families may be unimaginable, the communities they leave behind in the U.S. are affected as well.
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2026
Californian wines have borne the brunt of the tit-for-tat — and now these local, often family-owned businesses expect further losses, said Julie Berge, vice president of communications at Wine Institute, which represents California wineries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Afterwards, in the living room, the strain was almost too great to be borne.
From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
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