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That's borne out by the huge rise in the number of women now waiting for gynaecological procedures in England.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

And the higher expected returns on equities merely compensate for the risk that will be borne by the taxpayers — a huge and risky financial maneuver with very little payoff.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026

If those numbers are borne out in the real world, most people on GLP-1s may have some kind of undesirable GI effect from them.

From Slate • Mar. 22, 2026

For weeks, software stocks have borne the impact of investor concern that increasingly capable AI coding tools could help some companies displace behemoths with nimble, vibe-coded alternatives.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 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