bore
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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
“I was so struck on ‘Oppenheimer’ by what Imax could do for the human face, it seemed like it bore a hole into Cillian Murphy’s.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
Justice Thomas’s campaign bore fruit on June 23, 2022.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
And so, as these fighters walked stone-faced to the octagon, we bore witness to the revolting spectacle of the troops saluting fighters.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026
Reader, I don’t want to bore you with every detail of our robot’s farm routine.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
To tell me she’s bored, another series of jumps.
From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2026
Matt said he wrote his first poem while sat bored in A&E with a family member in 2019.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
Lestat is slightly bored with existing yet curious to see whether his music, primarily plied on the Internet, can reach enough undead followers to hasten the vampire apocalypse known as The Great Conversion.
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026
As Roderigo, whom Iago manipulates like a bored puppeteer idly pulling the strings, Daniel Velez is idiotically gullible.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026
I was bored by what seemed so interesting to them.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
"It's slow and steady. Predictable. Kind of boring -- but in a good way."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
Please save us from these boring British futbol announcers that only inspire narcolepsy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2026
The Wrap slammed it as "boring and tedious", the Radio Times said it "should be illegal", and the Independent declared young people deserve better than the "slop" of "warmed-over revivals".
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
That period saw the most boring action he’d seen in 20 years, with supplies steady and nothing really pressing on oil to push it higher, said Dicker.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026
“It’s like a rainbow of all the boring colors.”
From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold
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