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bears down
verb
Third person singular of bear down
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Everybody bears down more.
As the years pass, history bears down.
Hurricane Sandy bears down on the Northeast.
The shoving multitude bears down, and you're nothing".
Each supercolumn bears down on a broad circular concrete pier.
When he bears down, however, Mr. Ford is bracing.
From the outset the family bears down on you.
Now a serious hurricane bears down on tens of millions of Americans.
In Adams's telling, the bomb bears down like Fate incarnate, inevitable and irrevocable.
As the heat bears down once again, there are scores of gadgets for chilling wines.
Seen from Central Park the complex bears down on pedestrians with brutal indifference.
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