bore down
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Oil drillers operating in the Gulf of Mexico shut in production and evacuated personnel from offshore facilities as Hurricane Isaias bore down on the coast.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Tens of thousands of people looked set to spend another night away from home Monday as a wind-driven fire bore down on the western US city of Reno.
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 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
Branches from falling trees and what looked like pieces of metal from the edge of a building flew along empty roads on Wednesday as typhoon Ragasa bore down.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2025
The tug bore down on their shell, belching black smoke, its whistle shrieking, its horn blaring.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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