bearable
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There has also been a surge of online advice on how to make time in shelters more bearable.
From Barron's • Mar. 8, 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
The pressures of life, which in that moment felt unbearable, proved bearable.
From Slate • Dec. 26, 2025
And while Ophie knew that the cousins couldn’t truly hate her—she’d barely exchanged two words with them before they’d declared war—it didn’t make the constant backbiting or tiny pinches any more bearable.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
Vocabulary lists containing bearable
Vocabulary from the Introduction to "Reality is Broken" by Jane McGonigal
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