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bear

[bair] / bɛər /






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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

He added that the heads of both agencies will be "assessed" and that "deputy heads who bear responsibility for this situation will be dismissed."

From Barron's Sep. 4, 2026

‘No bear could be that enormous,’ she whispered.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

Smith makes treats like Skittles, gummy bears and pasta festooned with marigold petals, narrating each step in a baby-soft voice while wearing dreamy fits.

From Salon Sep. 12, 2026

Bulls and bears remain entrenched in their robo-taxi opinions.

From Barron's Sep. 8, 2026

Mr. Rebeiro’s painstaking analysis pays off here: Liberty could govern interpretation only when the text plausibly bears the proposed meaning.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

As the intense heat bears down on a tent where people can charge their devices, we initially meet two young Egyptian men who are visibly tired and disheartened.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

They feed on seals, and because hunters always smell of seals, the bears think they are seals and track them down.

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

As Greengrass lays out the bare facts of this situation with a cinematic style that’s more news documentary than stuffy period piece, the parallels to our own current situation are laid bare.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 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

Their long nights of text messaging were laid bare and many of the messages shown to the jury.

From BBC Sep. 2, 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

I was afraid to even move my bare feet for fear I’d make a noise.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

“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

“We had a couple of opportunities to strike when we had some baserunners on. It seems like when we got to those positions, that’s when their guys beared down and made some pitches.”

From Washington Times Oct. 9, 2020

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

The lawsuit also accuses two men in Peru of painting fakes bearing Warhol’s signature and shipping canvases resembling Warhol’s 1983 portfolio of endangered species to Roberts’s gallery.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 12, 2026

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

I drifted at last into uneasy sleep, and dreamt many evil dreams, and in one I saw a shadowy figure with no face creeping into our hut and bearing away the ten ollocks of rice.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

I won’t bore you with our dismal record, but being on the team was the most transformative experience of my young adulthood.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

Speaking on CNBC, Goldman Sachs Chief Executive David Solomon said the recent surge in long-term Treasury rates bore watching but was not yet an urgent matter.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 31, 2026

While in the field, we encountered bore holes from bauxite mining exploration.

From Science Daily Aug. 28, 2026

It was Seoul that bore the brunt of Pyongyang's ire following these summits.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

Money markets weren’t cash—they paid interest, and thus bore risk—but, until that moment, people thought of them as cash.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

"There are fans that approach me shouting 'Draco' who weren't even born when I was in the first film," he says.

From BBC Sep. 12, 2026

Members of Generation Z, born between 1997 and 2012, were told - well after the fact - about the event that undoubtedly reshaped their futures.

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

For some, it may be hard to imagine that Coltrane and Davis were born in the same year.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

Some are born to sing the blues, as Perry once observed — just not Perry himself, who chews his way through this corny come-on like an overserved uncle at the Hard Rock Cafe.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

“So, Miss Boo…were you born on Halloween? Is that how you got your name?”

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

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

So it’s no surprise that Cook has borne constant criticism since the beginning of his CEO stint for lacking the charisma and vision of Jobs.

From MarketWatch Aug. 29, 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

It came within a hair’s breadth of crushing the prow, and with the backwash the boat was borne landward.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton




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