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bear down on

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Verb
  • Press crust into a 9-inch pie pan, pressing into the bottom and up the sides, and place in the refrigerator.
    Stephanie Ganz, Southern Living, 7 July 2025
  • The soundtrack from the 2005 film Pride & Prejudice makes its debut on Top Album Sales thanks to a 20th anniversary vinyl pressing across multiple variants.
    Keith Caulfield, Billboard, 7 July 2025
Verb
  • Over a century and a half after he was fooled and shoved into an airlock in the season-two finale, Day is not absolutely done with everything.
    Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 11 July 2025
  • The order, issued July 10, follows evidence of over 35 incidents in which reporters were allegedly shoved, tear-gassed, shot with rubber bullets, or arrested while documenting protests in downtown Los Angeles throughout June.
    Amanda Castro Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 July 2025
Verb
  • It's considered lossless to the eye, but the signal is actually compressed at a 3:1 ratio.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 13 July 2025
  • However, extreme space weather events may compress – or in some cases, peel back – the Earth’s magnetic shield.
    Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti, The Conversation, 11 July 2025
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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 21 Jul. 2025.

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