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bear

[bair] / bɛər /






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Much like a bear hibernating through difficult conditions, these cells can remain inactive until the environment becomes more favorable.

From Science Daily Sep. 6, 2026

Sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes, the bear, he eats you.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 2026

Long before she escaped, Molchanova gave Epstein the code name “mishka,” a Russian term that translates loosely as “little bear”—from a popular song that describes a bear who is a criminal.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 5, 2026

He added that the heads of both agencies will be "assessed" and that "deputy heads who bear responsibility for this situation will be dismissed."

From Barron's Sep. 4, 2026

‘It’s this. It is not by chance that the bear attacked your father. It’s because of him that it came into being.’

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

Bulls and bears remain entrenched in their robo-taxi opinions.

From Barron's Sep. 8, 2026

The gameplay bears a striking resemblance to Tetris.

From Salon Sep. 5, 2026

Mr. Rebeiro’s painstaking analysis pays off here: Liberty could govern interpretation only when the text plausibly bears the proposed meaning.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

As the intense heat bears down on a tent where people can charge their devices, we initially meet two young Egyptian men who are visibly tired and disheartened.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

In Alaska, for instance, the bears already know that the sound of a moose hunter’s gun means there will be a fresh gut pile when the hunter cleans the moose.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

Their long nights of text messaging were laid bare and many of the messages shown to the jury.

From BBC Sep. 2, 2026

Call us cute if you must, but don’t be surprised when we bare our teeth in a snarl.”

From Salon Aug. 31, 2026

Because now “it’s the bare minimum,” said forward Dearica Hamby, whose input — dedicated spaces for family and naps — was incorporated into the building’s design.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 27, 2026

But the summer's drought, which affected 95 percent of mainland France in July, has left normally rich pastures dry and bare.

From Barron's Aug. 26, 2026

This large bare room in the hospital was where all the sick in the camp had to assemble, often standing outside in the rain for hours just to get through the door.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Making things all the more difficult was the culpability that some players beared for the team’s fortunes.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 17, 2025

“The guys put their mind to it and beared down. Kind of: ‘Enough’s enough,’” Reid said.

From Seattle Times Oct. 17, 2021

“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

Back in May, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent also said his department was planning to issue a new $250 bill bearing a portrait of the president.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

On their way off the tarmac, they were greeted by a troupe of folk dance performers and flanked by two rows of teenagers wearing T-shirts bearing photos of Xi.

From Barron's Sep. 2, 2026

The patriotism of those years seemed earnest, even when it occasionally had the bearing of Sam Eagle: chest out, chin up, deeply concerned with the dignity of the republic.

From Salon Sep. 2, 2026

The driver of the slick SUV bearing Qatari plates shifted into park, stepped out and headed into the tony department store.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

He was pretty sure he remembered reading some rule against civilians bearing weapons in war zones.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

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

From Science Daily Aug. 28, 2026

Still, equities struggled as tech firms once again bore the brunt of selling, tracking a retreat in their counterparts on Wall Street.

From Barron's Aug. 25, 2026

It was Seoul that bore the brunt of Pyongyang's ire following these summits.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

Ms. Cusk seems similarly trapped, as well, in a novelistic form that appears to bore her but which she is unwilling to disavow.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

A black, buzzing cloud streaked from the orchard, and bore on so rapidly and passed so close to Coll’s head that he had to leap out of the way.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander

Cregger’s career was born from a series of unlikely events.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

Further down Brick Lane, Carol Burns, born and raised in the area, has no intention of going anywhere.

From Barron's Sep. 8, 2026

One-year-old Rory Potter, from Chesterfield in Derbyshire, was diagnosed with severe sagittal craniosynostosis, external - a condition where the skull fuses before birth - shortly after he was born in April last year.

From BBC Sep. 8, 2026

Dave Marsh was born in Flint, Michigan, where his dad worked on the railroad and did not appreciate the length of his son’s hair or the music he listened to.

From Salon Sep. 8, 2026

And sometimes the families we build are just as strong as those we’re born into.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

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

Fortunately, these investors’ worries are not borne out by the data.

From MarketWatch Aug. 22, 2026

This seems to be borne out by some recent hits.

From BBC Aug. 20, 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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