bear (down)

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Verb
  • Further, current macroeconomic risks would call for more hedging, given that consumer sentiment may be pressured in the coming months by persistently higher oil prices, while decline in the savings rate could signal another sign of fragility, Murphy said.
    Justina Lee, CNBC, 3 June 2026
  • In turn, this could materially pressure the credit profiles of real estate developers over the coming quarters.
    Alyson Shontell, Fortune, 2 June 2026
Verb
  • 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
  • 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).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bear%20%28down%29. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.

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