bestride

CEO Masayoshi Son's attempt to bestride the tech investing industry has suffered a series of high-profile reversals after outsized bets through SoftBank's first Vision Fund turned sour and investments made at bubbly valuations via a smaller second fund slumped.

No Jim Brown, the scourge of defensive backs and Black Power avatar bestride a motorcycle.

Russian mercenaries with the same shadowy Wagner Group now fighting in Ukraine bestride the Central African Republic, a country rich in gold and diamonds.

Should the masterminds of this catastrophe bestride their golden hoard like Smaug while nations sink beneath the waves, the Mississippi runs dry and millions of Latin Americans and Africans flee drought and starvation for refuge in Europe and the United States?

Literary London is more than the books we read, the plays we watch or the poets who bestride its stages: It has a thriving infrastructure designed to widen participation and create a literary culture for everyone, not just the privileged few.