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bear

[bair] / bɛər /






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"The profile of the players Newcastle signed in the summer, and it may well bear fruit in time...they went very young and relatively inexperienced," adds Smith.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Czarniak replied: “Almost too much to bear, Al.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

By looking for the mirror opposite of a bear market, investors therefore may remain invested far beyond what turns out to be the final top.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

To women of a certain mood, though, it confirms what we already know: that a bear is preferable company to thoughtless, dangerous people.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026

The bear tracks leapt out at him from the snow.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

And as head coach, Carrick bears significant responsibility for that.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

A Netflix spokesman said the company “disputes any claim that it bears the risk of loss for a film delivered without the proper industry-standard safeguards.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

The Obama Presidential Center opened in Chicago this June, and its auditorium bears my father’s name.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

The statement says that Blair, 54, has a neurological disorder that "bears directly on how a medical episode presents to people who do not know her".

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Polar bears could smell a seal from miles away, he remembered.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

Two decades ago, Baron Cohen used his hit film "Borat: Cultural Learnings of American for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" as a sociological mirror to lay bare certain prejudices within US society.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

Instead, the disparity between their domestic dominance and European shortcomings was laid bare once more.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

The state was apportioned a bare 300,000 acre-feet a year in 1928, when Las Vegas was merely a dusty outpost miles from the Hoover Dam construction site.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

The only cover was a line of bare trees.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

She turned me around to face a chart on the wall, her hand cold on my bare shoulder.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Herbert escaped the pocket to his left and slung a pass while falling away as defenders beared down.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2024

Hurricane Otis interrupted tropical vacations for some visitors and put a stop to a mining convention in Acapulco, Mexico, as the storm beared down on the city early Wednesday.

From New York Times ● Oct. 25, 2023

“We had a couple of opportunities to strike when we had some baserunners on. It seems like when we got to those positions, that’s when their guys beared down and made some pitches.”

From Washington Times ● Oct. 9, 2020

Wrestling fans around the world beared witness to some of the most iconic moments in WWE history at Sunday night’s edition of WrestleMania.

From Fox News ● Apr. 8, 2019

After a hesitation, he turned back to Kira and said in a low voice, ‘‘I beared them talking.

From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry

"In short, he speaks straight. We really love him," 23-year-old Or Nahman told AFP in Jerusalem's bustling Mahane Yehuda market, where a huge banner bearing Ben Gvir's face hangs over shop stalls.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

The room still features a personalized touch: an island bearing Foreman’s initials, “G.F.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

His expensive loafers and a Starbucks cup bearing a different name eventually raised suspicions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

It could also have a bearing on the power struggle at Two Sigma, where John Overdeck has been engaged in a long-running feud with his co-founder, David Siegel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

I think her bearing astounded and even awed them.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

“The AI trade bore the brunt of the mover lower,” he added, with the AI bottleneck and power themes also badly hit.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

Seoul and Tokyo again bore the brunt of the selling as traders bailed out of once-imperious chipmakers, though the selling was heavy across most of the region, tracking sharp losses on Wall Street.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

In November 2020, Indian government investigators found hidden bore holes where the operator of the United Marine Products fishmeal plant in Goa had been covertly disposing of toxic waste, thereby contaminating groundwater.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

In the first half of 2026, almost every sixth car sold in Britain bore a Chinese brand, according to Schmidt Automotive Research, a higher proportion than in any other European country except Norway.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

It showed no variation but of tint: green, where rush and moss overgrew the marshes; black, where the dry soil bore only heath.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Its first puppies are expected to be born in the first quarter of 2027.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

He was born to Moroccan parents and raised in a rough neighborhood in Eilat, at Israel’s southern tip.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Children in Corby have been born with birth defects, believed to have been caused when steelworks were demolished in the 1980s.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Neoperreo, the Latin American genre born of that internet era, turns 10 this year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

“Simba’s thirteen. He was born the same year I was.”

From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith

Ditka had borne witness to football’s physical and cognitive traumas, in teammates, former players like McMahon and the late Dave Duerson, and himself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

For Aston Martin, though, this was confirmation that changes they have made to their car in recent races have borne fruit.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

That is borne out in research, which shows relational organizing works because young people trust their neighbors or community networks far more than national parties.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

"To see those predictions borne out is a beautiful thing."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

But before that Atalanta had borne a son, Parthenopaeus, who was one of the Seven against Thebes.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton


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