BEAR (WITH) Synonyms: 32 Similar and Opposite Words

bear (with)

verb

Definition of bear (with)

as in to stand

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Outdoor bars and pop-up tasting stands peppered the festival grounds, offering adult libations to the 21-and-over crowd dancing, moshing and rocking out all weekend.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2026
Before the speaker’s podium stood a vase filled with white roses; to the right, a large photograph of the deceased.

— Peter E. Gordon, The New York Review of Books, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of stand

Verb

Goktas said political humor had been tolerated in the past and the laws regarding insult had not changed.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2026
Fazio is cast as a superhero in one ad, strong enough to save Connecticut from expensive electricity and high taxes tolerated by Lamont.

— Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of tolerate

Verb

Both original pilots remained under medical care after suffering injuries during the cockpit confrontation.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2026
Ominously, though, Huss' research shows that individual glaciers, among them Switzerland's biggest, like the mighty Rhône and Aletsch, have suffered record ice loss this year.

— Imogen Foulkes, NPR, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of suffer

Verb

The companies and economies that endure will be the ones that can balance growth, resilience and sustainability—and change before outside pressure forces them to.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026
The play is a gently unfolding, calmly delivered tale of the decades of horrors endured by a real-life person named Eddie Jaku.

— Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of endure

Verb

Lamashtu said something the patriarch couldn’t abide, and for that she was cast out of polite divine society forever and sent to make chaos among mortals.

— Eleanor Johnson, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
Until Monday night, anyway, when the Chiefs blasted Denver 31-10 behind Walker’s 173 yards on 23 carries — including a 60-yard touchdown run on a bold fourth-and-1 that in itself illustrated the abiding evolution of Reid.

— Vahe Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of abide

Verb

Meta called on others like YouTube and TikTok to adopt similar parameters for their platforms.

— Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 2 Oct. 2026
Firms like Edward Jones and LPL Financial, meanwhile, are rapidly adopting AI tools to gain financial insights, but also to better understand and communicate with their customers.

— Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of adopt

Verb

Much like the SaaSpocalypse pain in enterprise software, which was awful, the market did come around to the idea that Cramer had espoused at the time — that enterprise software tools and AI can co-exist and even make each other better.

— Alexa LoMonaco, CNBC, 29 Sep. 2026
More than 40,000 people would pack an Omaha arena on the first Saturday in May to hear from Buffett and his longtime investing partner, Charlie Munger, who died in 2023 and espoused a similar take-it-slow and make-it-right approach to investing.

— Josh Funk, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of espouse

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