bear relation
Frequency: 6.05.8 per million words
to have a connection to something
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Examples (10)
- The movie bore no relation to the book.
- The fee bears little relation to the service provided.
- His new theory bears a close relation to the work of his predecessor.
- Does this new evidence bear any relation to the case we are discussing?
- The final product will likely bear little relation to the initial design sketches.
- The witness's statement, bearing no relation to the known facts, was dismissed.
- The punishments handed out often bear no direct relation to the severity of the crime.
- Over the years, their promises have borne little relation to their actual policies.
- For a hypothesis to be valid, it must bear a logical relation to the available data.
- The fantastical illustration on the cover bore no relation whatsoever to the story inside.