bear on
Example Sentences
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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer vowed to "bring the full power of the state to bear" on the issue.
From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026
Johnson has been Wall Street’s biggest bear on Tesla stock for a long time.
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026
Goldberg, who is the lone Nvidia bear on Wall Street, noted that the chip maker commands more than 80% of the market for AI chips — a market that “is still growing massively.”
From MarketWatch • Mar. 17, 2026
What’s different about economists is that they are intensely interested in measuring and understanding how labor markets work—and they have brought that to bear on their own profession.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 18, 2026
The little girl wore a bib with a teddy bear on it.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
