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Definition of bore (down on)

past tense of bear (down on)

as in weighed (on or upon)

to push steadily against with some force you need to bear down on that cap a bit to get it to latch tightly

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past tense of bear down on

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to indicate the importance of by centering attention on Our manager bore down on the need to meet upcoming deadlines.

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Parents within the West Mifflin Area School District pressed the district and its bus provider for answers at a town hall Thursday after a rocky start to the school year.

— Ricky Sayer, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2026
The Greenlandic government, which commissioned the inquiry, released the reports Friday but, when pressed by journalists during a news conference, would not say whether its leaders had concluded whether a genocide had occurred.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026

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Just last week, 65-year-old Lydia Zuniga’s leg was broken in three places after a mentally ill stranger shoved her onto the tracks at a Bronx subway station in an unprovoked attack.

— Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 31 Aug. 2026
At the weigh-ins and face-off for the IBF heavyweight championship fight, Itauma shoved Hrgovic off the stage and the latter retaliated by slapping the former's face.

— Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026

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The explosion of malice effaces them in different ways, and James traces the mechanisms of their vanishing, examining how a person’s life can be compressed into smaller and smaller spaces.

— Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
The core issue is that this gas is normally compressed when injected at depth underground.

— Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2026

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