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verb

Definition of bearing (down on)next
present participle of bear (down on)
as in weighing (on or upon)
to push steadily against with some force you need to bear down on that cap a bit to get it to latch tightly

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present participle of bear down on
as in highlighting
to indicate the importance of by centering attention on Our manager bore down on the need to meet upcoming deadlines.

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bearing (down on)
  1. pressing
  2. shoving
  3. compressing
Verb
  • Marcon never allows Ludwig or Fritz the release of closure; the films don’t so much restart as stay in a state of irresolution, endlessly pressing pause.
    — Matthew McLean, Artforum, 22 Sep. 2026
  • So the danger of panic is real for a player pressing after getting a big contract and, so far, not living up to the bigger bucks.
    — Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of pressing
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  • Eventually, Reacher bests Amisha by shoving her out of a window to fall to the street below.
    — Chris Klimek, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Last month, Good Good Golf lost its partnership with Callaway and its title sponsorship of a PGA Tour event in the fallout over a video for a new driver that showed a man shoving to the ground a woman who was trying to touch the golf club.
    — Jim Vertuno, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of shoving
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  • The result is an entire ocean’s worth of wind and waves all compressing together to get through what is a seriously small bottleneck.
    — KC Baker, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2026
  • The space between those points is the organization’s window for intervention, and AI is compressing it across a growing share of business processes.
    — Jay Limburn, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of compressing
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“Bearing (down on).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bearing%20%28down%20on%29. Accessed 23 Sep. 2026.

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