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[reer] / rɪər /








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The Electronic Combined Braking System links the front and rear anti-lock braking system, so that using either the front or rear brake engages both, according to the Riding Mode’s algorithms and the bike’s loaded weight.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 29, 2026

Segments 1 through 9 carried segmented appendages, and the rear abdominal limbs had been modified into paddle-like structures.

From Science Daily Aug. 27, 2026

Emergency vehicles then arrived and began dousing the aircraft with water as one set of the rear tires appeared to burn.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 27, 2026

Their most pointed objection is to the proposed entrance, a rear alley used by residents to reach their gardens and by The Crown pub for deliveries.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

“My brother, how I’ve missed you,” Aunt Kate announced dramatically, descending from the train’s rear platform and greeting Mr. Pinkerton’s party as it reached the sleeping car.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

Like most sheep farmers, Williams primarily rears them for meat and breeding rather than for their wool, but it still has to be taken care of.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

But for the most part, Ferraiolo says, young people have a fear of missing out—a phenomenon that rears its head every time an investment soars, as seen in recent years with cryptocurrency and meme stocks.

From Barron's Feb. 24, 2026

Still, the Brisbane speech, which rears its sombreroed head into any Google search of the author, marked a shift in the way Shriver engaged with the world.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 31, 2026

Real life, in short, rears its ugly head.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 11, 2025

The river falls farther and farther away beneath us and the larger mountain rears up on the other side of the river.

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness

There we met 60-year-old Rameshwar Yadav, a former private-school teacher who now reared buffaloes for a living.

From BBC Jun. 1, 2026

Bodexpress was the last to try, in 2019, but he reared leaving the starting gate and dumped his jockey.

From Los Angeles Times May 11, 2026

Patel’s instinct to use force to fix his reputation reared its head again with the girlfriend scandal.

From Salon Apr. 24, 2026

For now, February’s retail figures stand as a snapshot of an economy that was briefly gathering strength, before war reared its head.

From Barron's Apr. 1, 2026

But Ma Charles seemed to enjoy Vonetta’s imitation and reared her head back and cackled.

From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia

In a late July televised speech President Herzog, who holds a mostly ceremonial role, warned of "violence rearing its head" and reminded citizens that "elections are not a civil war".

From Barron's Aug. 19, 2026

Now those fears seem to be rearing their head once more.

From MarketWatch Jun. 22, 2026

Scientific studies have shown that as fathers have taken a more active role in child rearing, they’ve faced loneliness, doubt and confusion.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 19, 2026

Back in 2019, standing on that Dongguan campus with white marble horses rearing in front of a French neoclassical facade, Huawei’s defiance felt like a genuine statement of strength.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 2, 2026

The systematic enslavement of Africans, and the rearing of their children under bondage, emerged with all deliberate speed—quickened by events such as Bacon’s Rebellion.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander




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