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Also understand how the timing of withdrawing investments can impact your overall balance, such as if you’re taking a distribution in a bear market when it will take longer for your portfolio to recover.
From MarketWatch β Nov. 6, 2026
The bear, meanwhile, gets our empathy, as any creature would.
From Los Angeles Times β Nov. 6, 2026
But curbing Right to Buy could take a long time to bear fruit, says Prof Tunstall.
From BBC β Nov. 6, 2026
The company says it’s making targeted investments in driver acquisition, retention and reactivation in those regions, a strategy that it says has worked in the past and is starting to bear fruit this time around.
From The Wall Street Journal β Nov. 5, 2026
Pink Number Two had said Hesterfowl’s cabin was one hundred bear paces north.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
The Chinese government has established more than 50 panda reserves for conservation, but in the wild the bears continue to face threats of habitat loss and poaching.
From Barron's β Nov. 7, 2026
For bears, or those with less confidence in Micron’s stock, the idea is that the prospect of a memory downturn is becoming more real, Hendi Susanto, a portfolio manager at Gabelli Funds, told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch β Nov. 6, 2026
With attacks on the rise, the people of Arviat harbor no delusion that polar bears are endangered.
From Los Angeles Times β Nov. 6, 2026
Political ethicist Dennis Thompson called this the problem of many hands: When many officials each contribute a small part to a collective outcome, responsibility seems to dissolve until no one bears it.
From Salon β Nov. 5, 2026
Owen’s parents were the owners and operators of Tundra Treks, a company that took people to see polar bears in the frozen wilderness outside Churchill, Manitoba.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
An adjacent overpass over Agoura Road, as well as a land bridge still being built between the structures, are currently bare.
From Los Angeles Times β Nov. 6, 2026
The first arrivals found little more than bare plots, without roads, running water or electricity.
From BBC β Nov. 3, 2026
The war with Iran laid bare the vulnerability of the energy supply chain, when about 20% of the world’s supply of oil and gas was effectively trapped behind the Strait of Hormuz.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 29, 2026
The next day, the 45-year-old posts a video on Instagram, speaking outdoors in front of a bare wall.
From Barron's β Oct. 28, 2026
She fidgeted and wriggled her bare toes while Mr. Sasaki spoke.
From "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" by Eleanor Coerr
Making things all the more difficult was the culpability that some players beared for the team’s fortunes.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 17, 2025
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 β 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 β Jun. 10, 2017
“When we had those opportunities to get runs, he beared down and made some really good pitches in some tough situations,” Jackson said.
From Seattle Times β Sep. 7, 2014
After a hesitation, he turned back to Kira and said in a low voice, ‘‘I beared them talking.
From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry
By reducing normal weight bearing and muscle use, this technique produces some of the changes associated with prolonged inactivity, including muscle deterioration.
From Science Daily β Nov. 4, 2026
You may have seen them passed around at the playground or park — tiny, candy-colored stickers, often bearing bright cartoony faces, hearts or flowers, meant to repel mosquitoes.
From Los Angeles Times β Nov. 4, 2026
Singer’s warning echoes fellow hedge-fund manager Ken Griffin’s comments last month about the AI boom bearing all the hallmarks of a speculative bubble.
From The Wall Street Journal β Nov. 3, 2026
If there’s a takeaway here, it is that underlying economic and business trends tend to have a far greater bearing on markets than politics.
From MarketWatch β Nov. 3, 2026
The bad side of this is obvious enough, and clearly has a bearing on Isaac’s development as a largely solitary individual who kept himself to himself and made few close friends.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
It bore battle scars, but there was a shielded space under two large concrete slabs and between two large metal boilers.
From The Wall Street Journal β Nov. 6, 2026
Another wrote that the object bore no labels indicating that it's a wine bottle.
From BBC β Nov. 4, 2026
“The AI trade bore the brunt of the mover lower,” he added, with the AI bottleneck and power themes also badly hit.
From MarketWatch β 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 β Oct. 15, 2026
The envelope bore the seal of the Haarlem police.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Atlanta previously hosted pandas on loan from China starting in 1999, and seven panda cubs have been born at the zoo.
From Barron's β Nov. 7, 2026
Logan’s office said its review of about 200 flagged voters found that a substantial portion appeared to have been born in the United States, a finding Homeland Security officials disputed.
From Los Angeles Times β Nov. 7, 2026
One of the UK's smallest accredited zoos is celebrating after "extra special" pied tamarin twins were born at the site.
From BBC β Nov. 6, 2026
Ms. Ferrer, who was born in Cuba and raised in the U.S., writes history above political partisanship and refuses “the binary interpretations imposed from on high in Washington and Havana and Miami.”
From The Wall Street Journal β Nov. 6, 2026
She was in Rochester when these tricks first begun, but came to Hydesville, the little village in Central New York, where we lived and were born, shortly after.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
Then, whether buyers return to semiconductor stocks that have borne the worst of the selling, and whether any recovery extends beyond a handful of top-tier tech names.
From MarketWatch β Nov. 6, 2026
"The additional cost is borne by the state," he said.
From Barron's β Oct. 25, 2026
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 β Oct. 8, 2026
For Aston Martin, though, this was confirmation that changes they have made to their car in recent races have borne fruit.
From BBC β Oct. 3, 2026
Now they could hear, borne over the dark, the sound of harsh singing.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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