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Those are real-world costs borne by workers, families and local communities.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

This is borne out by reports from within higher education, where the use of AI is often not considered cheating at all.

From Salon • Jun. 10, 2026

For the next 49,000 years, the sticky pits captured virtually everything that fell or walked onto them, from grains of pollen borne by the wind to hapless ancient camels and Columbian mammoths.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

Even if that had been 100 percent true, and all of our reporting had borne that out, that alone would have been interesting: The president’s pool guy is renovating the Reflecting Pool.

From Slate • Jun. 4, 2026

‘Well,’ said she, ‘it must be borne some time or other, and it may as well be now.’

From "Emma" by Jane Austen