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Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s government has tried tax relief and energy price cuts, but efforts have not borne fruit.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 28, 2026

Small businesses that rely heavily on supply chains from GB have borne the brunt of the friction.

From BBC • Jun. 23, 2026

This defense has borne fruit in other Strike 3 cases, in which defendants successfully argued simply having an IP address that was used to infringe wasn’t enough to prove they committed the infringements.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2026

They’re ubiquitous across the Western world — an architectural infection spurred by capitalism’ need for generic efficiency borne of economies of scale.

From Salon • Jun. 8, 2026

Blessedly, their platters of food appeared, borne by a cortege of waiters, directed by the busybody maître d'.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez