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bearish

[bair-ish] / ˈbɛər ɪʃ /
















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As Banderas plays him, he’s a bearish marvel of a man with the kind of earthy soul that would have had Ernest Hemingway chugging salty dogs on his barstool all night.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

Meanwhile, the bearish puts that they had been stocking up on over the past few weeks were getting absolutely crushed, according to Charlie McElligott, a cross-asset strategist at Nomura.

From MarketWatch Aug. 4, 2026

While short-term participation has wavered, those rotations have kept NDR’s longer-term breadth indicators from turning bearish, the strategists said.

From MarketWatch Aug. 4, 2026

Most investors mistakenly interpret a higher price/earnings ratio as an unambiguously bearish indicator.

From Barron's Aug. 3, 2026

The bearish boy’s knuckles went white around his branch.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman




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