bear
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Both were once a part of giant conglomerates whose names they still bear.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
And it’s not only the townspeople who bear this malice.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026
Between 1900 and 1960, for example, 84% of bear markets coincided with recession.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 25, 2026
The bear had no water dish and relied on a hose for drinking water.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
The light was fading, but he could still make out the bear tracks, and he didn’t want Wolf touching them.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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Outside the perimeter fence, daily life bears little resemblance to the military activity unfolding inside.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026
McLaughlin said the two bears were in extremely poor health when they were first rescued.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
Federal prosecutors noted that black bears and cougars are coveted by some for their use in traditional medicine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026
Alaska is a state of 27 people who all spend their day in the woods fighting with bears.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2026
We spent the evening helping him through the opening quests and getting him equipped well enough to fight the local bears.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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Two decades ago, Baron Cohen used his hit film "Borat: Cultural Learnings of American for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" as a sociological mirror to lay bare certain prejudices within US society.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
Hugh Alderwick, of the Health Foundation think-tank, said the report by the CQC "lays bare the massive challenges" facing the government.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
A front loader takes a scoop from the mound of wood chips and deposits it on a bare platform.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
The only cover was a line of bare trees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Once my bare feet flew out from under me and I sat down so hard I grunted.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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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
“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
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It’s a testament to a food system that, so far at least, is bearing up against a barrage of geopolitical and climatic disruption.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
That has little bearing internally at the club and BBC Sport can reveal the Foxes were working under a transfer embargo for five weeks in the summer.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
She loses sight of the truck and thinks it has pulled in behind a building bearing the name Pinnacle Prestress.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
The room still features a personalized touch: an island bearing Foreman’s initials, “G.F.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026
The casket bearing the body of Jimmie Lee Jackson is carried into Brown Chapel for funeral services.
From "Because They Marched" by Russell Freedman
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“The AI trade bore the brunt of the mover lower,” he added, with the AI bottleneck and power themes also badly hit.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
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
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
I really bore down on it when I told Papa about that hundred dollar monkey.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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Francesco Capra, born in Sicily, arrived in Los Angeles with his family at age 6.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
This was surprising because, when the girls were born, she had asked for their full names so she could include them in her will specifically to ensure they received nothing from her estate.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
SÃO PAULO—Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a former shoeshine boy born to illiterate parents, has made a life of defying expectations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
Williams won six of her Grand Slam singles titles - plus 30 WTA tournaments - before Austria's Tagger was born in February 2008.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
It was a very fine day to be born.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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"The additional cost is borne by the state," he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026
For Aston Martin, though, this was confirmation that changes they have made to their car in recent races have borne fruit.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
That is borne out in research, which shows relational organizing works because young people trust their neighbors or community networks far more than national parties.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
The program is funded by a payroll tax of 12.4%, borne equally by employer and employee and applied to the first $184,500 of taxable income.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Silently, the party drifted after it as it was borne aloft into the open field, bobbing across the sea of grass like a little boat.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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