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And the cost will be disproportionately borne by entry-level workers doing repetitive tasks.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

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

Consumers have borne higher gasoline prices for months, but the impacts of the Iran war are rippling through other sectors of the economy.

From Barron's • May 13, 2026

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

From Salon • Apr. 30, 2026

The next moment she was being borne away from the radiance of earth in springtime to the world of the dead by the king who rules it.

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