bear on

Example Sentences

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Morally if not legally, they deserve more grief than whatever the Justice Department manages to bring to bear on them, which won’t be much.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

Goldberg, who is the lone Nvidia bear on Wall Street, noted that the chip maker commands more than 80% of the market for AI chips — a market that “is still growing massively.”

From MarketWatch • Mar. 17, 2026

The Dutch are bringing innovation and the latest technology to bear on a centuries-old problem.

From Barron's • Nov. 7, 2025

However, he concluded in his written decision that “these mitigating factors are outweighed by negative factors that bear on her risk for future dangerousness.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2025

Fifteen years after Independence, in 1975, a group of Senators called the Church Committee took it upon themselves to look into the secret operations that had been brought to bear on the Congo.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver