bear
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He sees this as reflecting the greater strain dealers now bear to trade, warehouse and distribute debt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Kailua’s seaside streets bear the unmistakable look of a Hawaiian beach town, an oasis of palm trees, swimsuits and surfboards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
When AFP met Hangzhou Robot School's Wuji -- a customised Unitree model -- it asked visitors to bear with it as it showed them around the school's reception.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
There will be another 10% correction and eventually another bear market.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
It had been seven days since they’d set out from the Fastwater, and still there was no sign of the bear.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Here’s another factoid that could get the AI bears excited: Stocks in the S&P 500 are increasingly trading in opposite directions on a given day.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
In Pereira, home to half a million people, every single street bears proof of what happened.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
But there’s something sweeter about this version of McConaughey and it’s due in large part to his performance opposite LookingGlass, who bears a quiet magnetism onscreen and capably shoulders her portion of the story.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
About 250 polar bears were counted in the archipelago during the last scientific estimate, carried out in 2015.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
“Well, if you want to try living in a different kind of movie, there’s also trying not to get eaten by the bears and mountain lions.”
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
Don’t miss: ‘Her bank accounts were stripped bare by Medicaid’: My late friend had $20,000 in credit-card debt.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
The US actress turned heads in an outfit that showed off her bare bump at the launch of her new film, The End of Oak Street, in Los Angeles on Sunday.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
The day was sticky enough that the plastic adhered to my bare shoulder.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
On a beach in southern Romania, a few metres from the Danube shore, a boy sloshed his bare feet through water that only reached up to his ankles.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
They search the man, strip him bare, run fingers through his hair.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
“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
“We found ourselves in a two-possession game in the fourth quarter, and we beared down and won the game,” South Carolina Coach Dawn Staley said on Friday.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2022
“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
Family members, now also bearing surnames like Kellermann, Millhiser and Richards, had flown and driven in from all around the country.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
The UK Home Office says its work with countries like Germany "is bearing fruit".
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Bush never quite lost his boarding school bearing.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
In Cambridge Saturday, several people left flowers and a card bearing Arday's name on the university gates in the city centre.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
They are huge walls of water bearing down on everything in their path at speeds of up to fifty miles an hour.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
Ms. Cusk seems similarly trapped, as well, in a novelistic form that appears to bore her but which she is unwilling to disavow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
The Kospi climbed more than three percent, helped by chipmakers SK hynix and Samsung, which bore the brunt of that selloff.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
Skubal bore down and got out of the inning with a flyout from Taylor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
England's only significant change in the India series was a new opening combination of Ben Duckett and Jacob Bethell, and it bore fruit at Lord's.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
The notion that the cascading events in France bore any relation to the American Revolution struck Adams as outright lunacy.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Then, William Hyde, a middle-aged Black man born and bred in Nashville, looked dumbfounded—he too had been stricken by Chud.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
The largest number of Americans born in a single year arrived on campus in the autumn of 2025, and now a decline is looming.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
The Williams were both born in Birmingham and have lived in the West Midlands all their lives.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Offspring born to older mothers often live shorter lives, reproduce less, and have lower evolutionary fitness.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
My dad had been a Glitcher too, but he’d died on a mission before I was born.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
When a carrier strike group deploys for a historic mission, the burden isn’t borne solely by those in uniform.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
She adds that it's not wholly borne out of a lack of consideration for others - loudcasting can be a tool for connection.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
For the Andromeda team, the bulk of any potential losses is likely to be borne by the life-insurance companies that own as much as $35 trillion of these assets.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
Australia also also benefits from a unique volunteer firefighting service borne out of its vast geography.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
It was a night of confirmation when he felt an almost mystical affinity with every man who had ever borne the motto of semper fidelis.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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