Bear
Bear verb - To go on a specified course or in a certain direction.
Usage example: the road bears left after the second traffic light
Point
Point verb - Be a signal for or a symptom of.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Strange Attractors by William Sleator has an example involving a literal teddy bear; a character is hiding a time machine inside her teddy bear while she sleeps, and this is an important plot point.
Source: Sealed Evil in a Teddy Bear - It gets to the point she mentions a bear showing up, and one of the girls asks how old the bear is.
Source: Derailed for Details - The bear uses his three wishes to be surrounded by females to the point that his final wish is to be the only male bear in the world.
Source: Three Wishes
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Point and Bear. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 01, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/bear/point
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Point or Bear. 2016. Accessed August 01, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/bear/point.
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