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bear

[bair] / bɛər /






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The state risk pool was never intended to bear such risk.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 20, 2026

The longer a financial crisis or bear market stretches on, more autocallables held by the ETF may be at risk of losses should they expire with their maturity barriers still breached.

From MarketWatch Sep. 18, 2026

In October 2011, Crystal Kelley signed a contract to bear a baby for a couple in Connecticut, where she also lived.

From Slate Sep. 17, 2026

Consumers could ultimately bear much of the resulting costs.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

Dad walks into the kitchen and gives me a huge bear hug as he wishes me a happy birthday.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Inside, over the course of my three days at the convention, I met no bears within the predominantly male crowd.

From Slate Sep. 20, 2026

If the S&P 500 closes below 7,580 for two consecutive days — it closed below that level on Wednesday but bounced back above it on Thursday — that’s when the bears will take control.

From MarketWatch Sep. 18, 2026

South Korea banned the breeding and possession of the bears last year, along with the extraction of bile from their gallbladders.

From BBC Sep. 16, 2026

In her modest office, a poster bears a famous quote from legendary Soviet rock group Kino: "Our hearts demand changes."

From Barron's Sep. 16, 2026

Her windowsill is covered in flowers, cards, and a few stuffed teddy bears.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

As summer went by, they all watched the ginkgo's branches increasingly go bare and brown.

From BBC Sep. 18, 2026

Also known as grabblers or hand-fishermen, noodlers use their own bare limbs as bait to catch enormous flathead catfish lurking in Southern and Midwestern rivers, creeks, and lakes.

From Slate Sep. 17, 2026

Big cheers to Chelsea Handler for taking up a travel etiquette cause we can probably all agree on: bare feet on planes.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

To aid the body in getting as close to stable temperature as possible, Eisenman said people can practice “skin wetting” by keeping as much bare skin continuously damp as possible.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

Brickbane, the Usher before, had decorated much differently: the walls and ceiling bare.

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

“He just beared down and made pitches when he needed to,” manager Dave Roberts said, “versus feeling it with the mechanics or being uncertain.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 28, 2026

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

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

“He gave up a lot of hits but beared down when he had to. He pitched well enough to win and he pitched well enough to lose. We just couldn’t score.”

From Washington Times Jun. 10, 2017

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

From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry

Even if a condo comes with a lower price tag, selling one has become more difficult as buyers get spooked at the prospect of bearing ever-rising costs.

From MarketWatch Sep. 18, 2026

Trump then inaugurated another golf course bearing his name in the town of Balmedie, near Aberdeen on the northeast Scottish coast.

From Barron's Sep. 12, 2026

Dame Vera Baird said: "We will be looking at the report with interest to assess whether it has any bearing on our review of the case."

From BBC Sep. 12, 2026

Writing about the idiosyncratic art historian Aby Warburg, Irwin relates how, in the late 1920s, Warburg designed a stamp bearing an image of a soaring plane.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

Next day the companions crossed the River Ystrad and began bearing northward.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

At the beginning of the year, the rotation bore the brunt of the injury bug, with left-hander Blake Snell and right-hander Tyler Glasnow missing months of the season.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 17, 2026

The court said "both sides bore equal responsibility for the breakdown of the marriage" and therefore granted the divorce but rejected Lee's claim for damages, she added.

From Barron's Sep. 9, 2026

While in the field, we encountered bore holes from bauxite mining exploration.

From Science Daily Aug. 28, 2026

To some, the 2008 financial crisis bore out White’s thinking.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

I’d watch them glide and circle as I floated on my back, the water bearing me up as the wind bore them, and wonder if they saw me too, down below.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

Taylor was born in King's Lynn, Norfolk, and was drawn to drumming from an early age.

From BBC Sep. 19, 2026

Much more rarely, a person is born without the antigen because of an inherited genetic change.

From Science Daily Sep. 19, 2026

Fields, born into a theatrical family, was writing that same year for Harlem’s Cotton Club.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

In Wells Fargo’s survey, two-thirds of parents of adult Gen Z-ers — the generation born between 1997 and 2012 — said they provide financial support to their children.

From MarketWatch Sep. 18, 2026

And sure enough, Luna was born when there was a full moon, and a shock of hair covered her tiny head.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

These include any number of household-name technology giants whose stocks have been borne aloft to epic valuations by AI hopes and ambitions.

From MarketWatch Sep. 14, 2026

Benin's efforts have already borne fruit after it introduced a policy based on building new, modern markets and reorganising large commercial areas.

From Barron's Sep. 9, 2026

While the price that will be borne by these people and their families may be unimaginable, the communities they leave behind in the U.S. are affected as well.

From Salon Sep. 3, 2026

This seems to be borne out by some recent hits.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

Somehow each of them had become dear to him, if only because he had borne them so far with so much toil.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien




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