Bringing to bear
The crossword clue "Bringing to bear" is answered by USING, a 5-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
USING
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the USING answer page.
Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Every other clue in this collection answered by USING, most used first.
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Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Bring to bear - EXERT, used 122 times
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- Bear - ABIDE, used 28 times
- ___ bear - POLAR, used 25 times
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