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After he grounded out in his final at-bat, Freeman enveloped him in an impromptu bear hug.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

He became a millionaire in the process and his legacy in southern Africa has become a lightning rod for discussions about "decolonising" institutions which continue to bear his name.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

That’s far from the 20% drop that classifiees a bear market, Mayfield pointed out.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 12, 2026

Domestic oil production needs to increase for Dangote’s expansion to truly bear fruit, said Brendon Verster, senior economist at Oxford Economics Africa, “otherwise, the behemoth facility would need to rely on oil imports.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

We’ve got to find some way –of hiding it from the bear.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

We are equal because every human being bears the same inherent worth, the spark of our Creator.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

The 2nd Amendment says, “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bears Arms, shall not be infringed.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026

It bears heavy signs of use and was made by Fuhrer Frères of Gstaad, the same Swiss firm that supplied fifteen axes to the 1924 Everest expedition.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

There are few bears in the market these days.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026

Showing tourists the falling-down, graffitied buildings that had been surrendered to the snow and ice and polar bears.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

Rescuers used what tools they could scrounge — shovels, hoes, pickaxes, their bare hands.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

The warm, cozy feeling of the home is in sharp contrast to the vacant, bare property that Mowry-Housley and Housley set their sights on as their next major project.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026

The unfairness of the third-place competition was fully laid bare, greatly weighted in favour of groups which finish later.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

And Angèle is talented and well-known in Parisian beauty circles, but is beginning to feel that her canvas is the bare page, not a model’s bare face.

From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2026

It took too long to realize she could not, because the hands were gone and the clock face sat bare.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

“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

“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

“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

When I walked in, the only immediate clue that the doctor there had just won a much-contested congressional primary was a small cluster of campaign posters bearing his name behind the check-in desk.

From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026

The lawsuit recruiters came to their town bearing gifts, several residents told The Times.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026

In this tale, a 9-year-old girl named Ildr, who has recently lost her mother to a plague, encounters a stranger bearing extraordinary inventions such as eyeglasses and a firearm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

But fans remained in high spirits, dancing to the beat of drums, singing patriotic songs and wearing shirts bearing the name of team captain and former Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

I think her bearing astounded and even awed them.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

Typhoon Bavi knocked out power to thousands in Okinawa and lashed northern Taiwan as it bore down on storm-battered China, where it is expected to make landfall early Sunday.

From Barron's ● Jul. 11, 2026

“I was so struck on ‘Oppenheimer’ by what Imax could do for the human face, it seemed like it bore a hole into Cillian Murphy’s.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026

As centers of commerce, trade, finance and dissent, they bore the brunt of the British government’s increasingly harsh laws on trade and self-governance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

It was not because of anything offensive - simply because they bore the logo of Bavaria, not Budweiser - the official World Cup sponsor.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

It was so large that it took two servants on each side and one in the back to push the enormous wheeled trolley that bore this confection out of the kitchen.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

Two rare snow leopard cubs have been born at the park, alongside Himalayan monals and red deer, as well as Bru the capybara, Snoot the giant armadillo and Atty the sloth at Edinburgh Zoo.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

The working parent might provide a dollar amount for every year of marriage after a child is born.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

Holding that “jurisdiction” plainly means “the power of the United States to govern those within its territory,” Roberts upheld the citizenship of nearly all children born in the U.S.

From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2026

"Human love is a luxury -- if you aren't born with it, it's even harder to acquire later," a user from Jiangxi province wrote.

From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026

"Bartok was born in Womengo," she said quietly.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

Seoul, which has borne the brunt of the losses, jumped as much as seven percent at one point.

From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026

The clearest costs are borne by Americans who use adjudicatory commissions to enforce rights they cannot apply anywhere else.

From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026

This allowed them to identify traces of several pathogens, including Yersinia pestis, the bacterium responsible for plague, and Borrelia recurrentis, which causes louse borne relapsing fever.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 8, 2026

But its forays into men's football have not borne similar fruit.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

‘Twice you have borne me, Gwaihir my friend,’ said Gandalf.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien