How to Use bearish in a Sentence

bearish

adjective
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  • The market has been bearish lately.
  • Wednesday brought three new pieces of data that all point in a bearish...
    — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 14 June 2017
  • Spiegel isn't the only one hurting from Snap's bearish turn.
    — Krishna Thakker, Fortune, 12 July 2017
  • The recoveries are sharp verticals, which in a trend like this can be seen as bearish, too.
    — Clem Chambers, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
  • At the same time, the picture is bearish in the futures market, where hedge funds now hold the first net-short position in two years.
    — Eddie Van Der Walt, Bloomberg.com, 17 July 2017
  • Bearish analyst reports on the two tech titans contributed to the latest bout of selling.
    — Reuters, Fortune, 15 June 2017
  • Accounts of what spurred it ranged from bearish tweets by a short seller to a cautious note from Goldman Sachs Group.
    — Lu Wang, The Seattle Times, 9 June 2017
  • The MetWest fund’s returns have sagged recently though, hampered by a bearish call on corporate bonds.
    — Miriam Gottfried, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2017
  • Cap Alpha's Ian Katz, who's been voicing skepticism of Cohn's chances for weeks, is now even more bearish.
    — Tory Newmyer, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2017
  • All grinning, bearish charisma and articulate charm, Castro beguiles Alpert and the viewer alike with his bluff good humor.
    — Neil Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Sep. 2017
  • Positioning by hedge funds and other large speculators toward the dollar is close to the most bearish since 2013.
    — Lananh Nguyen, Bloomberg.com, 21 Sep. 2017
  • To be sure, many experts, including Goldman Sachs, are turning bearish on the digital currency at its current price.
    — Robert Powell, USA TODAY, 28 June 2017
  • But bearish factors are on the horizon: U.S. production has continued to rise and producers could take advantage of the higher prices to ramp up more quickly.
    — Neanda Salvaterra, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2017
  • The lower the index, the more bearish the pros feel about stocks.
    — Michael Joseph, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2023
  • In this market, the Rule of 40 is bearish, while the Rule of X is bullish.
    — Byallie Garfinkle, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Meanwhile, the share of those on the bearish end of the spectrum halved.
    — Robert Stevens, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2024
  • The more bearish view is that margins will fall even further, perhaps back to the norms of the 1980s.
    — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Some investors and traders see this move as a bearish sign.
    — Frank Holmes, Forbes, 18 July 2022
  • When the market opened a few hours later, even the most bearish traders were shocked.
    — Fortune, 14 Apr. 2020
  • And only the most bearish investors think cash will beat stocks over the next decade.
    — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 5 Apr. 2018
  • That's the most-bearish ever in data that starts in 2006.
    — Millie Munshi, Houston Chronicle, 2 Jan. 2018
  • Calderon, a bearish man with a white stripe in his dark, curly beard, seemed shaken.
    — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2022
  • But what about the next time the stock market corrects or, worse, turns bearish.
    — Robert Powell, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2018
  • In April, his bearish views turned out to be right, but his timing, well, was a bit off.
    — Will Daniel, Fortune, 16 May 2022
  • But the success of bearish traders in 2022 goes beyond luck.
    — Lu Wang, Bloomberg.com, 30 June 2022
  • Even the world’s foremost oil cartel has a bearish view on the future of oil.
    — Paul Vigna, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2020
  • The co-founder of investment firm GMO is known for his bearish views.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Should the bank stock bounce back, there could be an unwinding of these bearish bets.
    — Schaeffer's Investment Research, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024
  • One doesn’t have to be bearish on one Bucs receiver to be bullish on the other.
    — C.d. Carter, Sports Illustrated, 9 May 2019
  • All the while, stocks were climbing out of a bearish phase into a bull market.
    — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 22 June 2023

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