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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bore (with)
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At a Tuesday afternoon news conference in Sacramento City Hall, the mother and daughter stood beside their attorney, immigration advocates and local lawmakers — many of whom were involved in a weeks-long effort to bring her home.—
Mathew Miranda
Updated March 31,
Sacbee.com,
1 Apr. 2026 -
While chatting during a recent visit, my niece stood next to a chair and put one foot on the seat.—
Jacobina Martin,
Washington Post,
1 Apr. 2026
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The Thunder bench outscored the Knicks’ second unit, 25-13, and Miles McBride, in his first game back from a sports hernia surgery that sidelined him 28 games, suffered an injury and grabbed at his stomach before leaving the floor and going to the locker room in pain.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
30 Mar. 2026
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This settlement allows class members who suffered damages between June 2008 and July 2019 to receive compensation.—
Chase Jordan,
Charlotte Observer,
30 Mar. 2026
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The 14th Amendment − one of a trio of constitutional amendments adopted after the Civil War − overrode the Supreme Court’s infamous 1857 Dred Scott decision that African Americans could not be citizens.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2026
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The directness with which the camera meets the eyes of the film’s subjects suggests compassion for their disfigurement and isolation (indeed, Farrokhzad adopted a boy from the colony), but there are no interviews.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
27 Mar. 2026
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The receiver endured a total radiation dose of 500 kilograys, orders of magnitude higher than the doses typically tolerated by electronics in outer space.—
Katherine Bourzac,
IEEE Spectrum,
2 Apr. 2026
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Marylanders must never forget that many of the Democratic politicians still in office today once openly tolerated or supported the lawlessness that led to the destruction of the Columbus statue.—
Torrey Snow,
Baltimore Sun,
25 Mar. 2026
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But, for many American Jews, Zionism has come to represent the belief that there should be such a home—both because of the Jewish people’s ties to their ancestral land and because of the centuries of persecution that Jews endured, culminating with the Holocaust.—
Eyal Press,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
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Friends had endured weeks in hiding and one story in particular stayed with her of a family forced to crawl across their apartment floor to avoid being seen from outside.—
Essie Assibu,
Variety,
29 Mar. 2026
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“Bore (with).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bore%20%28with%29. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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