Thesaurus results for BORNE (DOWN)

borne (down)

verb

variants also born (down)

Definition of borne (down)

past participle of bear (down)

as in weighed (upon)

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When that kind of work fills most of the day, actual selling gets compressed into whatever time is left.

— Jeff Winters, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
Testing later revealed that the mass was caused by a staph infection that had settled in her spine and compressed her thoracic spinal cord at the T4-T5 level, leaving her paralyzed from the chest down.

— Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 22 July 2026

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Now, to win elections—and, especially in New York City, to actually succeed in government—soft supporters of Israel are being pressured to support Palestine and pulled into coalition with anti-Zionists.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 July 2026
Trump, however, denied knowing anything about the Tates’ case, and the Romanian foreign minister insisted the country hadn’t been pressured to lift the travel restrictions on the brothers.

— Chad de Guzman, Time, 20 July 2026

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In addition, the way graduation rates are reported across BIE schools was changed to address flawed data collection that previously depressed the numbers.

— Savannah Peters, Fortune, 13 July 2026
Rising costs of components, supply chain constraints, and weaker consumer demand that are all partly linked to the Iran war have depressed smartphone sales in much of the continent, resulting in the slowest growth of shipments to Africa in two years, research firm Omdia said.

— Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 8 June 2026

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