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bear down on

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bear (down on)
Verb
  • If any charges were pressed, that was between the bank that owned it at the time and the previous owners.
    Meredith Wilshere, People.com, 19 May 2025
  • Imagine a slow-motion bubble of molten rock pressing upward beneath the surface, warping and cracking the crust above.
    Victoria Corless, Space.com, 19 May 2025
Verb
  • Despite the Timberwolves being down 16, McDaniels decided to shove Gilgeous-Alexander, sending him to the ground.
    Matt Levine, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 May 2025
  • Four days per week, nurse anesthetist Mike O’Dell spends his 10-hour shifts sitting in a swivel chair shoved between pieces of towering, whirring operating equipment.
    Megan Sauer Ryan Johnston, CNBC, 22 May 2025
Verb
  • Eventually, they were so thoroughly compressed that nuclear fusion got going—and boom, the very first stars lit up the universe.
    Robin George Andrews, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 May 2025
  • Costello neatly compressed the clichés of political pop.
    Armond White, National Review, 28 May 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 3 Jun. 2025.

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