Used in a Sentence

bears

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for bears.

Editorial note

A company is responsible for its contractors and bears legal liability in most jurisdictions for their actions.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

A surname.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of bears gathered in one view.

noun

A surname.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for bears.

noun

A surname.

Example sentences

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A company is responsible for its contractors and bears legal liability in most jurisdictions for their actions.

2

Polar Bears as a species are older than the last time the Arctic Ocean was free of ice.

3

Endangered polar bears, Hurricane Katrina, and out-of-control Malaria epidemics are a much easier way to get people's attention.

4

An adjunct position bears a similarity to being a driver for Uber, in terms of inadequate pay and security.

5

Ruby & Perl are currently at 21% & 18% respectively on Github, so it bears no resemblance to your figs.

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The edge case where user = developer isn't an immediately obvious one so it bears clarification.

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I've been discouraged from looking at software patents by lawyers because apparently knowledge that you're infringing can be bad news bears even if the patent is frivolous.

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Yeah, probably, most of them -- but there've been ice-free north poles many previous times in the Polar bears' 2.5-million-year evolutionary history.

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This also bears repeating: >Stallman had a printer which had proprietary drivers, and he wanted to fix an issue with the driver.

10

CBD bears investigation in epilepsy and other neuropsychiatric disorders, including anxiety, schizophrenia, addiction, and neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy.

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This is not a C compiler; the language it accepts bears only a superficial resemblance to any version (formally standardized or not) of C.

12

So the ice-free north pole is going to kill the polar bears?

Quote examples

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The author bears some responsibility for changing my mind from believing in her product (what you call helping, "someone realise their product") to simply just wanting the end result of what I paid for at a higher cost than retail.

Proper noun examples

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After watching 'An Inconvenient Truth', I was quite affected by the supposed plight of the Polar Bears.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use bears in a sentence?

A company is responsible for its contractors and bears legal liability in most jurisdictions for their actions.

What does bears mean?

A surname.

What part of speech is bears?

bears is commonly used as noun.