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Offsetting these gains are the continued tariffs, of which consumers could bear up to $100 billion of the cost, Evercore figures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 4, 2026

One of them is that visitors should "never try to photograph a bear up close".

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2023

One study from a group of international economists estimates that high-income countries could bear up to half of the global economic losses arising from global vaccine inequity.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2022

She noticed that her capacity to bear up under difficulty, to protect her boys, changed her sense of what was possible.

From New York Times ● Oct. 24, 2019

Let me be prosaic so far as facts can be; it will help me to bear up, and imagination must not run riot with me.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker


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