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borne

adjective as in carried

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As Blanche is being borne away, Stella breaks down, crying, “What have I done to my sister?”

His reservations have been borne out by the council’s unrelenting anti-Israel exertions.

In many ways, my family’s move to Italy was borne out of our discontent as parents in America.

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New discoveries and old hunches borne out by computer analysis have indicated how often and how deeply he collaborated with writers such as Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Kyd and John Fletcher.

Technology stocks have borne the brunt of selling amid the rush to interpret private jobs figures.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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