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[ verb ] bring into operation or effect
Examples "The new members brought to bear new concerns to the U.N." Used in print (Kenneth Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era...)In six months O_'_Banion had boosted the profits to $ 100000 a month - mainly by bringing pressure to bear on fifty Chicago speak-easy proprietors to shift out to the suburb . (Arlin Turner, "William Faulkner, Southern Novelist"...)It is to say rather , I believe , that he has brought_to_bear on the history , the traditions , and the lore of his region a critical , skeptical mind - the same mind which has made of him an inveterate experimenter in literary form and technique . Related terms |
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