BEARS (WITH) Synonyms: 32 Similar and Opposite Words

bears (with)

verb

present tense third-person singular of bear (with)

as in stands

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As Jafa’s gang assembles on one end, Prince’s gang stands erect at the other end of the hall, bathed in warm glowing colors.

— Tina M. Campt, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
The robot stands 3 feet 7 inches (110 centimeters) tall and weighs 44 pounds (20 kilograms).

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2026

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That the Philippines sits on the same side of the date line as the rest of Asia and that Alaska observes the same date as the contiguous US are preferences the current iteration of the IDL still abides to.

— Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Aug. 2026
And the Diderot-Baudelaire-Fried tree abides even as the forest burns mutely round it, match lit by Elon Musk and company.

— Carlos Valladares, ARTnews.com, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of abides

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Vietnam's communist government tolerates little dissent and tightly controls the media.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2026
Our criminal system deliberately places the burden on the government and tolerates the possibility that guilty people will go free rather than lower the standard required to convict.

— Monu Bedi, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2026

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Another key element of the measure is establishing a two-year budget cycle for the city, which currently adopts its budget annually.

— Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
But Eliot also uses free indirect discourse, the technique in which an omniscient narrator adopts the perspective of an individual character, to inhabit Dorothea beyond her surface qualities.

— Sanjena Sathian, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2026

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