bearings
Example Sentences
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Then on Monday he posted a video to Telegram filmed in Paris, saying: "Right now, I need to get my bearings and figure out what to do next. I'll write about my plans later."
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
One possibility is that this new Fed moves too slowly to respond to the oil-price shock while it finds its intellectual bearings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Purveyors of bearings, fasteners, pneumatics and other manufacturing staples should see demand outpace their capacity to easily meet it, potentially leading to bottlenecks similar to what investors are seeing with memory chips.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
Ian Littleworth’s Happy, the dissolute son always looking for an easy way out, seems unsettled not only in his bearings but in his command of the script.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026
I got my bearings zipping around the rink for a while, picking up speed, cutting left and right, short hops, pivots.
From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely
