bear
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It models bear markets, inflation spikes, interest-rate changes and tax scenarios.
From MarketWatch β Aug. 26, 2026
My approach is that unless your day job is day trading, stocks are for the long run, and pullbacks and bear markets tend to be opportunities to get in.
From MarketWatch β Aug. 26, 2026
He observed one stopping for a dip in the garden pool, highlighting the increasingly common overlap between wildlife and residential life in Los Angeles County, where housing developments have spread into bear habitat.
From BBC β Aug. 25, 2026
Though a brace was used, it became clear to Crimson’s caretakers that his paw couldn’t bear weight.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 23, 2026
My face upside down above Caesar’s, I see his jaw clench, his teeth bear down, and his eyes widen with shock.
From "Willβs Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
When he saw what he had captured, he said: "I was so extremely happy. I was screaming, so I probably woke up all the polar bears for miles."
From BBC β Aug. 25, 2026
Here’s another factoid that could get the AI bears excited: Stocks in the S&P 500 are increasingly trading in opposite directions on a given day.
From MarketWatch β Aug. 17, 2026
But there’s something sweeter about this version of McConaughey and it’s due in large part to his performance opposite LookingGlass, who bears a quiet magnetism onscreen and capably shoulders her portion of the story.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 14, 2026
The lakes region Mr. Hoffman describes as “magnetic and mercurial” is home to bears, wolves, badgers, otters and a surprising variety of other creatures, yet their ways of life are being threatened.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 14, 2026
Sometimes bears, wolves, and other predators are already south, working the sheep farms down where it is more settled—they take a terrible toll of sheep—and we catch them on the way back through.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
At least a quarter of National Football League players may end up with a degenerative brain disease, according to a new study published Tuesday that lays bare the extreme toll of America's favorite sport.
From Barron's β Aug. 25, 2026
Trans comedian Jordan Gray is extremely unafraid to bare it all, including her soul, when behind the piano.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 25, 2026
Focaccia has become de facto sandwich bread or makeshift pizza crust elsewhere in Italy, but it tends to be bare bones in Genoa, where it has been made since the Middle Ages.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 23, 2026
The US actress turned heads in an outfit that showed off her bare bump at the launch of her new film, The End of Oak Street, in Los Angeles on Sunday.
From BBC β Aug. 11, 2026
The last time I’d been here, the trees had been bare and shivering; now, they were flowering white and pink.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
“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 β 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 β Oct. 25, 2023
“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
The first is “what the market believes the average short-term interest rate will be over the next decade,” while the second is the “additional compensation investors require for bearing the uncertainty around that path.”
From MarketWatch β Aug. 24, 2026
She climbs on his back, whereupon the deceitful Zeus abducts her, bearing her westward across the waters toward Crete.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 21, 2026
The UK Home Office says its work with countries like Germany "is bearing fruit".
From BBC β Aug. 18, 2026
Bush never quite lost his boarding school bearing.
From Salon β Aug. 16, 2026
Like gripping a ball bearing as hard as you can.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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 β Aug. 18, 2026
Within hours of erupting, the fire bore down on homes around the popular resorts of Siviri and Fourka, which are packed with summer tourists.
From Barron's β Aug. 13, 2026
The Kospi climbed more than three percent, helped by chipmakers SK hynix and Samsung, which bore the brunt of that selloff.
From Barron's β Aug. 12, 2026
Later that afternoon, about four miles away outside of Home Depot in Pasadena, organizers staked in the ground dozens of white crosses that bore photos of the dead — the majority of them men.
From Los Angeles Times β Jul. 25, 2026
Faster and faster the waters bore him along, tossing him right and left.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
“Commerce is the city where I was born and raised,” Altamirano said in an emailed response to questions.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 26, 2026
Dolly Parton was one of 12 children born into a poor family that lived in a one-bedroom cabin in the Smoky Mountains.
From BBC β Aug. 26, 2026
For our study, we used data from over 64,000 people born in Britain between 1951 and 1956.
From Science Daily β Aug. 26, 2026
My cousin tells a story: Several years before I was born, she was sitting on our great-grandmother’s lap at her modest home in a hollow in Eastern Kentucky.
From Salon β Aug. 26, 2026
And she hadn’t saved my mam the day my little brother, Patch, was born.
From "Nory Ryanβs Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
This means many of the losses incurred in the attacks have been borne by those businesses.
From BBC β Aug. 24, 2026
When a carrier strike group deploys for a historic mission, the burden isn’t borne solely by those in uniform.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 16, 2026
The Ventura County district attorney said his county “has borne the brunt of the greatest disaster of its kind in the history of the State” — and he was clear on who deserved the blame.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 6, 2026
Australia also also benefits from a unique volunteer firefighting service borne out of its vast geography.
From Barron's β Aug. 3, 2026
There was a noise like a strong wind blowing, and on it was borne the sound of hoofs, galloping, galloping, galloping from the East.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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