bear
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Few of those selected for this tournament bear the scars of that encounter, with a youthful and dynamic squad featuring only six of the team from the Sin City debacle.
From BBC β Oct. 23, 2026
Brundo had set up a Styrofoam deer and a bear on the back of his property to entertain archer Nugent.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 22, 2026
It was a blackly comic story of the pressures of the modern economy—and, in particular, of how they bear down on men in their traditional roles as providers and patriarchs.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 22, 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 β Oct. 18, 2026
‘Of course I haven’t forgotten! But I’m worried about them! If the bear isn’t up here, then it’s down there, where they are, Why else would Fin-Kedinn blow the horn?’
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
And as head coach, Carrick bears significant responsibility for that.
From BBC β Oct. 22, 2026
And then, inflation data gave bond bears exactly what they wanted.
From MarketWatch β Oct. 16, 2026
I’ll admit that as a stubborn, refined sugar traditionalist, I’ve long resisted the shift away from the Reese’s cups, M&Ms and gummy bears of my cavity-toothed youth.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 13, 2026
But a U.S. agency said almost two-thirds of current offshore oil output was shut-in as of Thursday morning as Hurricane Isaias bears down on the Gulf Coast.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 9, 2026
“Gotta be one of the last bears of the season,” Owen said.
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 β Oct. 23, 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 β Oct. 22, 2026
The force of the water stripped the fjord’s walls down to bare rock.
From Science Daily β Oct. 19, 2026
For the next 50 million years they had no leaves and conducted photosynthesis in their bare stems.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 16, 2026
She swings her legs off the bed, slaps her bare feet on the wood floor.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
Making things all the more difficult was the culpability that some players beared for the team’s fortunes.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 17, 2025
“We found ourselves in a two-possession game in the fourth quarter, and we beared down and won the game,” South Carolina Coach Dawn Staley said on Friday.
From New York Times β Mar. 29, 2022
“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 β 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 β 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
Erin O’Neil, an attorney based in Connecticut, said some of her clients are now in deportation proceedings triggered by allegations of fraud over minor inconsistencies that have no bearing on the case.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 23, 2026
"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 β Oct. 23, 2026
The room still features a personalized touch: an island bearing Foreman’s initials, “G.F.”
From MarketWatch β Oct. 21, 2026
The once-reliable negative correlation between incomes and child bearing has flipped.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 18, 2026
There were other aspects of the dispute that we shall not go into here, since they have less direct bearing on Galileo’s life.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
“The AI trade bore the brunt of the mover lower,” he added, with the AI bottleneck and power themes also badly hit.
From MarketWatch β Oct. 23, 2026
And poor taste in design is a pity because it’s a bore.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 18, 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 β 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 β Oct. 9, 2026
Mrs. Clarke was mildly out of breath, but she bore a pleased expression.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
Los Angeles County officials reviewed a sample of 200 of those voter registrations and found that nearly 40% indicated they were born in the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times β 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 β Oct. 22, 2026
The mustachioed star of several 20th century hit films was born on 25 August 1933 in Detroit, Michigan, and served in the US Air Force before pursuing an acting career that boasted several military roles.
From BBC β Oct. 22, 2026
“The reality there is there’s just less babies being born, and there’s more substitution happening at earlier ages,” Cocks said.
From MarketWatch β Oct. 22, 2026
From what I know, Dad and Melissa were close growing up, but they had an epic fight years before I was born.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
His hunch is borne out by data: the tracker OpenRouter says the five most popular models this model are Chinese.
From MarketWatch β Oct. 21, 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 β Oct. 2, 2026
"To see those predictions borne out is a beautiful thing."
From Science Daily β Oct. 1, 2026
Supporters of Botswana's hunting policy, however, argue that international criticism often overlooks the costs borne by rural communities living alongside one of the world's biggest concentrations of elephants.
From BBC β Sep. 30, 2026
For the scent had borne him back to the day when he had lit his little fire under the sunny bank; and for the moment all else between was out of waking memory.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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