plural bruins
: bear sense 1
Bears are the most popular animals in a number of our national parks. In the Smokies, where the population of bruins runs into the hundreds, opportunities to observe these large wild animals are plentiful during the summer.—
Edward Spargo and Glenn R. Williston
Edward Spargo and Glenn R. WillistonA disturbing and all-too-common sign of a feeding bear is an overturned garbage can … its contents scattered about as the bruin searched for something edible in the trash.—Charles Fergus
Charles FergusExamples of bruin in a Sentence
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Garbage cans, pet food and hobby chickens are just too much temptation for bruins to resist.
—Ben Long, The Denver Post, 13 Feb. 2024
The footage shows skiers nonchalantly turning back and forth across a groomed trail when a bruin is seen loping across the slope on the left-hand side.
—Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 14 Dec. 2023
In the fall, berry seeds, apple chunks, rosehips, fur and hair, and the bones and scales of fish are visible in scat piles, producing telltale clues to a local bruin’s foraging habits.
—Steven Hill, Field & Stream, 29 Nov. 2023
The footage begins with the bruin lumbering around in a lakeside yard where folks are enjoying a barbecue.
—Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 7 Sep. 2023
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Ben Long, The Denver Post, 13 Feb. 2024
The footage shows skiers nonchalantly turning back and forth across a groomed trail when a bruin is seen loping across the slope on the left-hand side.
—Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 14 Dec. 2023
In the fall, berry seeds, apple chunks, rosehips, fur and hair, and the bones and scales of fish are visible in scat piles, producing telltale clues to a local bruin’s foraging habits.
—Steven Hill, Field & Stream, 29 Nov. 2023
The footage begins with the bruin lumbering around in a lakeside yard where folks are enjoying a barbecue.
—Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 7 Sep. 2023
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bruin
noun
bru·in
ˈbrü-ən 
Etymology
from Bruin, name of a bear in literature, from early Dutch bruin "brown"
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