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Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s government has tried tax relief and energy price cuts, but efforts have not borne fruit.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 28, 2026

This defense has borne fruit in other Strike 3 cases, in which defendants successfully argued simply having an IP address that was used to infringe wasn’t enough to prove they committed the infringements.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2026

“But those generators onsite also carry with them local pollutants that are kind of borne by the community right by the data center as well.”

From Salon • Jun. 12, 2026

That growing interest is borne out at the University of Sheffield too, where they have gone from 10 casual members in 2025 to more than 50 this year.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

Marvelous arms they were when Thetis brought them, worthy of their maker, such as no man on earth had ever borne.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton