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Seoul, which has borne the brunt of the losses, jumped as much as seven percent at one point.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
The clearest costs are borne by Americans who use adjudicatory commissions to enforce rights they cannot apply anywhere else.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
McKee argues this is the "by far the best way of doing it" as the costs are borne by more of the population.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
This allowed them to identify traces of several pathogens, including Yersinia pestis, the bacterium responsible for plague, and Borrelia recurrentis, which causes louse borne relapsing fever.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 8, 2026
In the town of Ravenel, ten thousand dreams hovered over the town each night and ten thousand died each morning, their washed-out corpses borne away for burial at sea by the first breeze.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
