bear
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But the largest reminder of his legacy are his children, Chris Candy and Jennifer Candy-Sullivan, who not only bear a striking resemblance to their parents, but also exude their warmth and spirit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
If you have pets, keep them inside when a bear is patrolling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Recent market weakness is not the beginning of a bear market, according to a contrarian analysis of market-timer sentiment.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
Scotland is expected to bear the brunt of the rainfall once again, with prolonged heavy rain raising the risk of localised surface water flooding.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
According to Oslak, scouts had found signs of the bear only two valleys away.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Prosecutors asked that the charges be dismissed because the evidence no longer supported Pirro’s claim, evidence that, it bears repeating, had been available to the government the entire time.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
Its appearance bears little obvious resemblance to the spiders and scorpions that descended from its broader evolutionary lineage.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
While AI is yielding tremendous returns for pension funds, it also bears a warning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
Hannah Arendt, one of the 20th century’s defining political thinkers, posited that modern life was making “being human superfluous”; her learned successor Lepore warns that our present bears out that idea.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
“Polar bears have like four inches of blubber. They’re so good at retaining heat they don’t even show up when you film them with infrared cameras. They’re like arctic ninjas!”
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
He follows a carnivore diet, picks up snakes with his bare hands, and pushes videos of himself doing pushups shirtless and in jeans.
From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2026
“What is required by law as far as disclosure should be treated as the bare minimum,” he said.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026
Disease, disturbance and pollution have meant vast swathes of once vibrant green seabed have been left bare.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
All of the influence efforts have laid bare the steep climb for Israel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
She turned me around to face a chart on the wall, her hand cold on my bare shoulder.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Making things all the more difficult was the culpability that some players beared for the team’s fortunes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2025
“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
Arab Gulf countries and their economies are bearing heavy costs from the regional war.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
After a two-year rally that has seen several markets and companies around hit record highs, the air is blowing out, with chip firms bearing the brunt of the selling.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
When the chain last year unveiled a new, pared-back logo — bearing only the words “Cracker Barrel” against a yellow background — the news spread through social media, and not in a good way.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
It's worth bearing in mind that these four approaches above are not mutually exclusive.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
On top of her dark curls she wore a crown bearing the word Peace.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
Skubal bore down and got out of the inning with a flyout from Taylor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Typhoon Bavi knocked out power to thousands in Okinawa and lashed northern Taiwan as it bore down on storm-battered China, where it is expected to make landfall early Sunday.
From Barron's ● Jul. 11, 2026
Farmers now need to bore 200 feet down to find water, he said, compared with about 80 feet a decade ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Siobhan Harding, from the Women's Support Network, said research she has carried out through women's centres across Northern Ireland showed women often bore the burden of managing household finances.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
“And I didn’t want to bore you. You said you wanted to go home and watch a ball game on TV.”
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
In 2023, the project celebrated the first white-tailed eagle chick to be born in the wild in southern England since 1780.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
“I was born and raised — lived my entire life — in the Dominican Republic,” said Tokischa, just after her high-octane performance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
“This show isn’t just born out of stuff from my life, but from all the writers’ lives or observations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
“I was born in a stable,” he says, laughing, “like Jesus.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
She’d been moments from being born even as Clare lay dying.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
Over the weekend, an uneasy ceasefire established itself across the Persian Gulf, suggesting Signum’s theories had been borne out and validated by events.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
This means many of the losses incurred in the attacks have been borne by businesses.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
He does not need to lift his team into the postseason, a burden often borne by marquee free agents signed to put their team over the top.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Farming and fishing communities in the Niger Delta, the heartland of Nigeria's crude production, have borne the brunt of pollution.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
Afterwards, in the living room, the strain was almost too great to be borne.
From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
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