bear up

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Recent Examples of bear up The eating tray can be easily attached and bear up to 30 lbs. Nora Colomer, Fox News, 27 July 2024 Aggravating factors include fishing, pollution and habitat loss, on top of the species' unusually infrequent and low-yielding breeding patterns – sand tigers don't breed annually, and only bear up to two pups at a time. Kyle Schmidbauer, Fox News, 26 Mar. 2024 The book is geared toward children from the time they are born up through kindergarten. Sari Hitchins, Parents, 15 Mar. 2024 Designed with a sturdy steel frame, the table can bear up to 22 pounds of weight at a time. Monica Bell, Peoplemag, 11 Mar. 2024 See All Example Sentences for bear up
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  • Palm Tree Crew, which was valued in 2024 at $150 million, activates each of its partner brands into the fabric of its experiences, which cofounders Kygo and Myles Shear, inspired by Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville empire, started about five years ago.
    Andrew Watman, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
  • The end is a three-and-a-half-minute outro inspired by The King and I… the music had this waltzing, temptress thing.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 20 June 2025
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  • Popular online influencers with millions of followers have encouraged Holocaust denial.
    Tom Dreisbach, NPR, 30 June 2025
  • The bills’ sponsors and advocates are encouraged by the bipartisan support received so far.
    Lauren Jessop, The Washington Examiner, 30 June 2025

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