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Recent Examples of bearishness
One of the reasons Snyder was unique at the time, Santoli noted, was because of his bearishness during the all-time market peak in 2007, and then asserted in April 2009 that the market’s lows in March of that year wouldn’t be contested and that a new cyclical bull market would have a lot of runway.
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Sean Conlon, CNBC, 30 Dec. 2025
And with the nation boasting the highest government debt-to-GDP ratio in the developed world by a wide margin, bearishness to JGBs is likely to persist.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 29 Dec. 2025
There was slightly less bearishness towards WTI (28th percentile), based on low stocks around the NYMEX delivery point at Cushing and potential for a squeeze.
—John Kemp, Reuters, 6 Aug. 2024
Sean Conlon, CNBC, 30 Dec. 2025
And with the nation boasting the highest government debt-to-GDP ratio in the developed world by a wide margin, bearishness to JGBs is likely to persist.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 29 Dec. 2025
There was slightly less bearishness towards WTI (28th percentile), based on low stocks around the NYMEX delivery point at Cushing and potential for a squeeze.
—John Kemp, Reuters, 6 Aug. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bearishness
Noun
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Hermione Lee and Adam Phillips discuss psychoanalysis, pessimism, and poetry.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Mar. 2026
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Rather than optimism, there is pessimism.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
3 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Student skepticism is being driven in part by faculty salaries within the academic affairs budget decreasing and the unknowns of new football stadium costs and financing.—
Michael McGough,
Sacbee.com,
8 Mar. 2026
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Rosa, another woman from Matanzas who arrived in Homestead two and a half years ago and asked to be identified only by her first name due to concerns for her family in Cuba, expressed skepticism about the prospects for meaningful change in Cuba.—
Sarah Moreno,
Miami Herald,
7 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Activists have not communicated with police or city officials about the sirens, raising some concerns about how the devices are being used, how to inform residents about what the sounds from the sirens mean, and the possibility that the noise could become a nuisance.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Mar. 2026
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The New York investigation comes less than a week after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services halted Medicaid payments to Minnesota over fraud concerns.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
5 Mar. 2026
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“Bearishness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bearishness. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.
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