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The Department of Justice said that claims about prisons being awash with drugs, staff safety being ignored or management not caring about staff wellbeing "are simply not borne out by evidence".

From BBC • May 13, 2026

“The consequences of any self-dealing by Altman could be borne by our state pensions and individual investors, creating enormous financial risk.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

The costs borne by all parties will eventually force them to come to “an agreement that sort of wraps the trade war and the Iran war,” the money manager says.

From MarketWatch • May 1, 2026

In Houston, at least, most of the organizing costs are not expected to be borne by local governments.

From Salon • Apr. 30, 2026

Marvelous arms they were when Thetis brought them, worthy of their maker, such as no man on earth had ever borne.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton