as in to weigh (on or upon)
to push steadily against with some force
you need to bear down on that cap a bit to get it to latch tightly
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bear down on
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as in highlight
to indicate the importance of by centering attention on
Our manager bore down on the need to meet upcoming deadlines.
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His blood sloshed through the device’s tiny channels and pressed against its protein snares.—
Elie Dolgin,
IEEE Spectrum,
4 June 2026 -
But in May, Andrews finally got her call, after the Observer had pressed court staff for answers for weeks.—
Caitlin McGlade,
Charlotte Observer,
4 June 2026
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The two former tag team champions shoved each other.—
Alfred Konuwa,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2026
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Trump has largely shoved that group aside for a new one, run by his allies, Freedom 250.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
31 May 2026
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Sifting Out the Solution Since receiving his doctorate from the University of Cambridge in 2000, Chan had been developing and refining ways to compress complicated quantum states by focusing only on their most important configurations.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
29 May 2026
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The World Cup compresses all of this into one global cultural window.—
Jeff Fromm,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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“Bear (down on).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bear%20%28down%20on%29. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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