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The Department of Justice said that claims about prisons being awash with drugs, staff safety being ignored or management not caring about staff wellbeing "are simply not borne out by evidence".

From BBC • May 13, 2026

The costs borne by all parties will eventually force them to come to “an agreement that sort of wraps the trade war and the Iran war,” the money manager says.

From MarketWatch • May 1, 2026

In Houston, at least, most of the organizing costs are not expected to be borne by local governments.

From Salon • Apr. 30, 2026

So far, Google’s outsize investments have borne fruit: last quarter, cloud-unit sales were up 48% from the year before, with 154% operating profit growth.

From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026

Three times he whistled; and then faint and far off it seemed to them that they heard the whinny of a horse borne up from the plains upon the eastern wind.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien