bear on
Britishverb
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to be relevant to; relate to
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to be burdensome to or afflict
his misdeeds bore heavily on his conscience
Example Sentences
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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer vowed to "bring the full power of the state to bear" on the issue.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026
Goldberg, who is the lone Nvidia bear on Wall Street, noted that the chip maker commands more than 80% of the market for AI chips — a market that “is still growing massively.”
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 17, 2026
Yet many Fed watchers are concerned about how this episode will bear on the White House-Fed relationship in the future.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026
It focuses on the massive effort to rein in nature and bring the works of humankind to bear on a landscape that is completely indifferent to us.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025
Fifteen years after Independence, in 1975, a group of Senators called the Church Committee took it upon themselves to look into the secret operations that had been brought to bear on the Congo.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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