Bear
Supported
Supported adjective - Held up or having the weight borne especially from below.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- Dipper refuses to kill the bear and goes home, and Stan (of all people) congratulates him on doing the right thing even if no one supported him.
Source: Peer Pressure Makes You Evil -
Greg Bear's The Way Series uses the O'Neill cylinder concept as well, only with such things as super tall skyscrapers supported by cables.
Source: Bizarrchitecture - The extinct Atlas bear in North Africa, not a Roman introduction but supported by fossil and subfossil remains (the latter ones from the Bronze Age to the early Middle Ages) to have been there since the Pleistocene.
Source: Older Than They Think / Other
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Supported and Bear. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/bear/supported
Bear & Supported. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/bear/supported>.
Supported or Bear. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/bear/supported.
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