bearable
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To make those rates bearable, credit funds structured some loans at the outset to let borrowers meet some interest obligations with noncash payments-in-kind.
From Barron's • May 6, 2026
We’ve already been forced to figure out how to fight back, just to make each day bearable.
From Salon • Mar. 29, 2026
The situation is particularly acute in the capital, Kyiv, where blackouts had, until late last year, largely been a bearable annoyance that residents could weather with power banks, candles and battery-powered torches.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026
On his decision to confess, he said he prayed the consequences would be "bearable to the people who I've said sorry to" and that his justice in the law would be "deserved".
From BBC • Jan. 20, 2026
Moving felt much more bearable than sitting still, just as setting out as soon as possible to track down the Horcruxes and kill Voldemort would feel better than waiting to do it...
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
Vocabulary lists containing bearable
Vocabulary from the Introduction to "Reality is Broken" by Jane McGonigal
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The Devil's Arithmetic
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