bear
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The company’s efforts to differentiate its products further are starting to bear fruit, executives said on the call.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Chip stocks spent just 21 days in bear market territory.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
That would have meant sitting tight through the painful bear market of 2022, among other obstacles.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
In a statement read by Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy on behalf of Arday's family, they said "the public cruelty Jason was subjected to was too much for any man to bear".
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
‘The bear, the bear,’ he muttered, as if the very thought hurt.
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
Grizzly bears are — were — omnivores, not picky eaters, and also lazy ones, noshing on berries, roots, acorns, beached whale carcasses and any laggardly young elk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
About 250 polar bears were counted in the archipelago during the last scientific estimate, carried out in 2015.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Tourists always wanted to see the DNR chase polar bears, but Owen and George had both seen it happen so many times they didn’t need to stay and watch.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
Price discovery is critical, else you get hoarding, shortages and bare shelves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
Related: ‘Her bank accounts were stripped bare by Medicaid’: My late friend had $20,000 in credit-card debt.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
Japan's defence ministry declined to comment directly on Kim Yo Jong's Wednesday diatribe but said the country's defence capabilities "remain bare minimum" and "are not meant to threaten other countries".
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
The riverbed of the River Wye in Hereford was seen bare after weeks without rainfall.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
One hand on the table, she pushed at the pail with one bare toe: greenish brown water, a few strands of sea grass, and limpets moving gently.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
“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
“The guys put their mind to it and beared down. Kind of: ‘Enough’s enough,’” Reid said.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 17, 2021
“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
After a hesitation, he turned back to Kira and said in a low voice, ‘‘I beared them talking.
From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry
"The discoveries from the excavations, especially coins bearing Homer's likeness, show us that the inhabitants of ancient Smyrna considered the poet to be one of their own," archaeologist Mehmet Akif Erdem said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
Bush never quite lost his boarding school bearing.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
The jacket belonged to his late father, whom he remembers hovering over a record player, bearing songs from a more thrilling world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
If banks lose deposits to higher-interest bearing stablecoins, banks would have less capacity to make loans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
I’d watch them glide and circle as I floated on my back, the water bearing me up as the wind bore them, and wonder if they saw me too, down below.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
The engraved silver salver bore the mark of Dorothy Mills, one of just a handful of registered female silversmiths working in the 1700s, the NT said.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
He said social media platforms bore responsibility for not rebutting in time the content that encouraged last week's rush, warning it was "very likely" a similar event would happen "in any part of the world".
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
Skubal bore down and got out of the inning with a flyout from Taylor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
And as the poor performances mounted, Sasaki’s problems only intensified: His velocity dipped, his mechanics went off-kilter and he bore little resemblance to the pitcher once known as the “Monster of the Reiwa Era.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Built-in bookshelves ran along this false wall, old, sagging shelves whose blistered wood bore the same water stains as the wall behind them.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Baby Eva was born in the early hours of last Thursday.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Among those born after 2000, the figure was 82.2%.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
Joseph Weizenbaum, Eliza’s creator, was born in Berlin and fled to Detroit as a teenager to escape the Nazis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Kennedy, who was born after her father was assassinated, credits not only him but her whole family with inspiring her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
My only hope was to keep myself hidden so I wouldn’t find out when the baby was born.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
By buying up the loans, TWG would be reducing the risk borne by the insurer caused by having such a large amount of assets tied up with one or more related parties.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
The editorial’s concerns over stablecoin rewards and their risk to bank deposits aren’t borne out by recent data.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 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
Balder’s body was brought down the shingle, borne by four gods; eight legs took him past the crowd assembled there.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
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