Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Bearing or producing no fruit; sterile; barren.

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  • verb Present participle of unbear.

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Examples

  • They will try every distraction to make the American people over-look the real issues at stake this election season ... but what they are in denial of is the fact that Americans are living with the issues every single minute ... from foreclosures, sky-rocketing gas prices to unbearing food prices and the illegitimate Iraqi war.

    Obama's VP vetter steps aside 2008

  • Philadelphia ordered citizens in 1700 to plant shade trees in front of their doors, “pines, unbearing mulberries, water poplars, lime or other shady and wholesome trees,” so that the town might be “well shaded from the violence of the sun in the heat of the summer and thereby be rendered more healthy.”

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • Philadelphia ordered citizens in 1700 to plant shade trees in front of their doors, “pines, unbearing mulberries, water poplars, lime or other shady and wholesome trees,” so that the town might be “well shaded from the violence of the sun in the heat of the summer and thereby be rendered more healthy.”

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • Philadelphia ordered citizens in 1700 to plant shade trees in front of their doors, “pines, unbearing mulberries, water poplars, lime or other shady and wholesome trees,” so that the town might be “well shaded from the violence of the sun in the heat of the summer and thereby be rendered more healthy.”

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • If all we're going to do is focus on unbearing things, then we'll never move forward.

    CNN Transcript - Special Event: UNCONVENTIONAL WISDOM: What Determines How Voters Respond to Political Controversies? - November 3, 2000 2000

  • Oh, but it's luck Duncan found the nest before it got so unbearing hot!

    Freckles 1904

  • Oh, but it's luck Duncan found the nest before it got so unbearing hot!

    Freckles Gene Stratton-Porter 1893

  • If you were to ask any of our pseudoscientists for a simple 100% straightforward clarifiable proof in any their speculations on black holes or time-warp space continuums or Albert's silly contradictory equation E = mc (squared), etcetera, they'll all 100% inevitably end up relying on insisting we must all have blind faith in abstract mathematical postulates as their ultimate proof where upon their impervious belief in someone's 'mathematical constant' or 'arithmetic rule' is formidable, unbearing and must be accepted on blind faith without questioning it and all life cannot exist without such a number except that is, until someone else inevitably happens to come up with a better equation for explaining the same darn thing and then our pseudoscientists all quickly convert to worshiping someone else's new 'constant' as the new number to hail which all life supposedly could never exist if it wasn't for this new number.

    THE MEDICAL NEWS Ileonna Matthews 2010

  • If you were to ask any of our pseudoscientists for a simple 100% straightforward clarifiable proof in any their speculations on black holes or time-warp space continuums or Albert's silly contradictory equation E = mc (squared), etcetera, they'll all 100% inevitably end up relying on insisting we must all have blind faith in abstract mathematical postulates as their ultimate proof where upon their impervious belief in someone's 'mathematical constant' or 'arithmetic rule' is formidable, unbearing and must be accepted on blind faith without questioning it and all life cannot exist without such a number except that is, until someone else inevitably happens to come up with a better equation for explaining the same darn thing and then our pseudoscientists all quickly convert to worshiping someone else's new 'constant' as the new number to hail which all life supposedly could never exist if it wasn't for this new number.

    THE MEDICAL NEWS John Lennon 2010

  • If you were to ask any of our pseudoscientists for a simple 100% straightforward clarifiable proof in any their speculations on black holes or time-warp space continuums or Albert's silly contradictory equation E = mc (squared), etcetera, they'll all 100% inevitably end up relying on insisting we must all have blind faith in abstract mathematical postulates as their ultimate proof where upon their impervious belief in someone's 'mathematical constant' or 'arithmetic rule' is formidable, unbearing and must be accepted on blind faith without questioning it and all life cannot exist without such a number except that is, until someone else inevitably happens to come up with a better equation for explaining the same darn thing and then our pseudoscientists all quickly convert to worshiping someone else's new 'constant' as the new number to hail which all life supposedly could never exist if it wasn't for this new number.

    THE MEDICAL NEWS Zeigeist2012 2009

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