How to Use cross to bear in a Sentence
cross to bear
noun phrase-
But that is our cross to bear, not the audiences’.
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Jackie Strause,
HollywoodReporter,
19 Jan. 2026
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Dealing with customer service can be a cross to bear, even for the pope.
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Melina Khan,
USA Today,
6 May 2026
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Our greatest strength and our heaviest cross to bear.
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David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
16 May 2026
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Our greatest strength and our heaviest cross to bear.
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Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
25 May 2026
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At some point, higher education institutions may see that such responsibility is too heavy of a cross to bear and that their risk-mitigation strategies are essentially Band-Aids for a systemic problem.
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Jeffrey C. Dixon,
The Conversation,
17 Nov. 2025
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