bear
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He added: "This is an additional stress they should not have to bear."
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
To women of a certain mood, though, it confirms what we already know: that a bear is preferable company to thoughtless, dangerous people.
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026
Need to Know: Nearly 40% of the S&P 500 is in a bear market.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
The stories assembled here bear out the editors’ appraisal, though, as with all collections, some offerings are better than others.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
The bear turned and began moving back towards Torak.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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The statement says that Blair, 54, has a neurological disorder that "bears directly on how a medical episode presents to people who do not know her".
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
“Pepperpot City: Philadelphia and the Foundation of American Cuisine, an Illustrated History” by William Woys Weaver, a culinary historian, bears a strong resemblance to its mixed-bag namesake.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
And then, inflation data gave bond bears exactly what they wanted.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
Videos showing bears entering or damaging gers, and attacking livestock have reportedly gone viral on Mongolian social media in recent weeks, highlighting the increase in bear and human interaction across the country.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
The bears came back to dens that had been around for centuries, in part so they didn’t have to spend time and energy digging new dens each year.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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Earlier this year, the country’s intelligence agency warned young people to resist “lying flat,” a buzzword for doing the bare minimum.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
And other events which took place this year laid bare just how much more fans are being charged.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
It appears that most of those terrestrial planets don't -- they're just bare rock.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
No one sits staring mournfully at the bare lacquered table.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
She swings her legs off the bed, slaps her bare feet on the wood floor.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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Herbert escaped the pocket to his left and slung a pass while falling away as defenders beared down.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2024
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
"We got some runners on, and he beared down and started pitching different with runners in scoring position," Gomes said.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 26, 2011
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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But if you’re an investor in these funds, you are the market, and you’re bearing too much.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Pacific Time holding green baseball caps bearing the word “thinking” and the Claude logo sewn discreetly on the side of the caps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Quen was identified in July thanks to a scrap of paper bearing his name that was found with his remains, and DNA samples that matched his relatives.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
Hurricane Simon is bearing down on the Pacific coast of Mexico as a category one hurricane.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
The horseman’s tone and bearing nettled Taran, but he curbed his temper and bowed courteously.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
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Seoul and Tokyo again bore the brunt of the selling as traders bailed out of once-imperious chipmakers, though the selling was heavy across most of the region, tracking sharp losses on Wall Street.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
Then he launched another, this time a little closer to the imposing video board looming over American Family Field that bore the massive “2026 NLCS” logo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
Sentenced to 10 years, he bore the injustice nobly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Former Conservative Party leader Iain Duncan Smith described Archer as "a remarkable man who did everything at full bore", adding: "There were simply no half measures with him."
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
He thought about Memorial Hall, a quiet corridor in the temple that bore a permanent list of fallen Sons etched directly into the stone walls.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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After Uzbekistan, Rubio will go to India where the US ambassador is Sergio Gor, who was born in Uzbekistan and is also the US special envoy for Central Asia.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
Children in the Northamptonshire town have been born with birth defects, believed to have been caused when steelworks were demolished in the 1980s.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
The light captured by Webb in 2023, which provided the observations used in the study, had actually left the brown dwarf during the year Schrader was born.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
This is something Rodriguez, who is half Puerto Rican and half Dominican, born and raised in the States, also personally relates to.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
“Don’t move until I say. And if I die, you will not weep, you hear me? This is what I was born to.”
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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Michigan’s manufacturing supply chains are deeply integrated with Canada, and small businesses especially have borne the tariff brunt since they have less capacity to absorb the costs than larger companies do.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
"To see those predictions borne out is a beautiful thing."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
Supporters of Botswana's hunting policy, however, argue that international criticism often overlooks the costs borne by rural communities living alongside one of the world's biggest concentrations of elephants.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Every robot that faceplanted, lost a limb, or disintegrated in a spray of sparks was borne away on a stretcher by human attendants with deadpan solicitude.
From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026
In the later years of his life Theseus married Ariadne’s sister Phaedra, and thereby drew down terrible misfortunes on her and on himself and on his son Hippolytus, the son the Amazon had borne him.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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