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  • noun Plural form of bearer.

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Examples

  • Michael Fassbender, Dominic West, Olga Kurylenko are the title bearers in the trailer, but let's not forget Noel Clarke, David Morrissey and Ulrich Thomsen to name but a few.

    Filmstalker: Neil Marshall's Centurion trailer online 2010

  • Michael Fassbender, Dominic West, Olga Kurylenko are the title bearers in the trailer, but let's not forget Noel Clarke, David Morrissey and Ulrich Thomsen to name but a few.

    Filmstalker: February 2010 Archives 2010

  • Rayner and Artemis could potentially have done it, but they were, ironically, the two written into the previous title bearers setting the most.

    Comic Book Resources 2010

  • Rayner and Artemis could potentially have done it, but they were, ironically, the two written into the previous title bearers setting the most.

    Comic Book Resources 2010

  • But this mode of transportation only posed new problems as the palanquin bearers kept deserting the party.

    The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 2005

  • Both the individual State Deed and the 50 State Deed the "Deed to the United States" entitle bearers to ownership in the form of a quit claim deed with each parcel being approximately one-square inch or a 6,272,640th undivided interest in each one acre property.

    Archive 2006-03-01 Thatsnews 2006

  • But even then the number of stretcher-bearers is halved and the strain upon them very considerably reduced.

    War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps John George 1918

  • But, as at Ypres, the regimental stretcher-bearers worked valiantly, well seconded by the Field Ambulance stretcher-bearers from the Advanced Dressing Stations.

    War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps John George 1918

  • "Before you call the bearers, Miss -- your highness, I wish to retract something I said awhile ago," he said very seriously.

    Beverly of Graustark George Barr McCutcheon 1897

  • During the reign of Augustus the thing became a means of gratifying the cupidity of his courtiers; and Nero used it as the method of distributing his gifts to the people, -- granting as many as a thousand tickets a day, some of them entitling the bearers to slaves, ships, houses, and lands.

    The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims, In All Times and Countries, especially in England and in France 1870

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