bore
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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 ● Jul. 25, 2026
Among the British nationals who died were couple Pete and Fran Gillam, who lived in Bédar, the village that bore the brunt of the wildfires.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Typhoon Bavi knocked out power to thousands in Okinawa and lashed northern Taiwan as it bore down on storm-battered China, where it is expected to make landfall early Sunday.
From Barron's ● Jul. 11, 2026
Farmers now need to bore 200 feet down to find water, he said, compared with about 80 feet a decade ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
He stared at me with those dark eyes of his, which somehow, even in this hell, bore some of his smug arrogance.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
Nevertheless, the claustrophobic framing shrinks an epic voyage into small-screen content made solely for a bored child to hold right up to their nose.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
One employee was so bored that she was on her cellphone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
To tell me she’s bored, another series of jumps.
From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2026
Matt said he wrote his first poem while sat bored in A&E with a family member in 2019.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
I was bored by what seemed so interesting to them.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
“Unlike some of Nolan’s other films,” she wrote, “‘The Odyssey’ is not boring, thanks to the source material, which is impossible to mess up entirely.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
The top tier of the industry is doing fine with mostly boring, low-expense offerings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
“Trust is built in the boring moments like the on-time update and the no-surprises heads-up.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
"It's slow and steady. Predictable. Kind of boring -- but in a good way."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
I wait for Denny to think about how boring I am, or how he wishes he was in a different group.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
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