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bearable

[bair-uh-buhl] / ˈbɛər ə bəl /


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We’ve already been forced to figure out how to fight back, just to make each day bearable.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2026

There has also been a surge of online advice on how to make time in shelters more bearable.

From Barron's • Mar. 8, 2026

The situation is particularly acute in the capital, Kyiv, where blackouts had, until late last year, largely been a bearable annoyance that residents could weather with power banks, candles and battery-powered torches.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026

The pressures of life, which in that moment felt unbearable, proved bearable.

From Slate • Dec. 26, 2025

It had been too hot to think, too hot to sleep, too hot to do anything except seek refuge anywhere you could find it, until the temperature ticked back down from intolerable to just bearable.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly




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