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Recent Examples of bearish Yet bond traders in recent weeks also cited the prospect of inflationary trade policies under President-elect Donald Trump, who takes office next week, as a reason to be bearish. Bloomberg, Orange County Register, 15 Jan. 2025 Bitcoin prices declined on Monday, January 13, dropping to less than $90,000 and reaching their lowest level in several weeks as multiple factors contributed to bearish activity. Charles Lloyd Bovaird Ii, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025 Morgan Stanley is also bearish on Chinese shares given deflationary pressures and rising geopolitical tensions. Chloe Berger, Fortune Asia, 9 Jan. 2025 As is, the reasons to be bearish on Verlander could be a lot scarier. Grant Brisbee, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for bearish 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bearish
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  • Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde By Jeff Guinn The Half Life of Valery K, by Natasha Pulley From its first pages, The Half Life of Valery K gets to the core of what humans facing a seemingly hopeless situation must do to carry on.
    Vanessa Armstrong, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Similarly, Eden wondered if finishing a half-Ironman just months after giving birth was hopeless.
    Matt Fuchs, TIME, 2 Jan. 2025
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  • By the end, Liverpool’s players seemed tired and Klopp was irritable, clearly in need of a rest.
    Simon Hughes, The Athletic, 20 Jan. 2025
  • The trio’s sixth record is charmingly irritable in both of its moods: hopped up on fluffy coffee while cracking baseball jokes, or dragging out downbeats and lamenting power structures to goad listeners with mounting anticipation.
    Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 4 Dec. 2024
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  • Still, when the third act finally arrives, Russell deserves credit for making the audacious decision to deny his characters their comeuppance and instead end the film on a cynical note.
    Natalia Winkelman, IndieWire, 28 Jan. 2025
  • After all, dance pop’s supposedly liberating power has often been hijacked over the years for cynical ends, such as Target commercials and Katy Perry albums.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2025
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  • Second: When was the last time America, as a collective, got angry about anything?
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2025
  • The value of its currency is spiraling, inflation stands around 30%, and a broad range of Iran’s people are understandably growing angrier.
    Ian Bremmer, TIME, 2 Feb. 2025
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  • The pessimistic case Even those within the AI industry acknowledged that businesses were struggling to make use of the technology, especially beyond areas such as coding, marketing and customer service.
    Ina Fried, Axios, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Those who make up the MAGA base tend to be pessimistic about America and look longingly back to a country that was friendlier to their outlook.
    Daniel Foster, National Review, 23 Jan. 2025
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  • Everyone within her radius bears the germophobe’s wrath, with the only one who can occasionally pierce through her bilious anger being her upbeat hair-stylist sister Chantal (Michelle Austin), a mother of two vibrant daughters.
    Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 10 Jan. 2025
  • The piece ran under an illustration of a black spatula dripping sinister goblets of melting plastic, against a background of bilious green.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024
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  • That may only trigger the negative tipping processes.
    Andy Extance, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Layering tragedy atop tragedy One of the immediate negative effects of the Marshall Fire was substantial price gouging, which further compounded issues for affected renters such as Christina Eisert.
    Alicia Wallace, CNN, 23 Jan. 2025
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  • The offensive line, in Monken’s estimation, is the most talented and possibly most ornery unit he’s had at West Point, all the way down to wrestling each other to settle arguments about who’s tougher.
    Brian Hamilton, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 2024
  • They’re led by John Dutton III, an ornery character who nevertheless carries the kind of gravitas that only a veteran movie star like Kevin Costner can bring.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 18 Nov. 2024

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“Bearish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bearish. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.

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