bare
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Monday’s report had another glimmer of good news: Delinquency rates appear to be stabilizing, and fewer accounts are paying just the bare minimum.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
"Without any specialized equipment to move the rocks, they used their bare hands to remove them until they could pull me out."
From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026
And they need every dollar to fill out a bare cupboard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
The unfairness of the third-place competition was fully laid bare, greatly weighted in favour of groups which finish later.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
They reminded him of the bare rooms used by monks in a monastery.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
The album’s indictments of America’s failures are no different from his songs like “Pink Houses,” but their messages are barer and nearly impossible to misinterpret.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2023
"All around me staff are leaving, staff are crying... many people are already voting with their feet and leaving. But of course that just strips the service even barer."
From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2022
A glacier can provide some protection, preserving piles of snow year-round that can even be deployed on barer ski pistes elsewhere on the slopes.
From Reuters ● Aug. 27, 2021
These people, in other words, were also nostalgic for earlier times; we aren’t the first generation to wish our children’s playroom shelves were barer.
From Slate ● Dec. 24, 2018
It looks barer, and is overshadowed by that peculiarly comfortless air always given by chimneys or machinery of mines.
From Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts by Northcote, Rosalind
Greenspan exhibited a deft touch with financial markets, saying the barest minimum in his statements but seemingly always conveying what traders wanted to hear.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026
This locks in the legitimacy of its Christmas entertainment designation by the barest of definition.
From Salon ● Dec. 7, 2024
It's a world away from old school royal releases which stuck to the barest of details and stayed as dry as the desert.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2024
One theory is that men just aren’t taught about the finer points of hygiene—that because cleanliness is dismissed as a feminine trait, parents give boys only the barest instruction in why and how to clean.
From Slate ● May 17, 2024
This is the kind cattle are transported in—a dark wooden crate with the barest slits for ventilation, the cars linked so long that I can't see the engine or the caboose.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
The pages capture the inner thoughts of someone who found himself at the center of history, as if Oppenheimer grabbed a pen and bared his soul during the Manhattan Project.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
But in her four memoirs, she safely bared all in print, openly confronting her harsh inner critic, her battle with bulimia, and — yes, Alvy — her musings on death.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2025
All conveyed with a smile: chin down, eyes up, teeth bared.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2024
Many of the women wept as Francis washed their feet, gently pouring water over one bared foot and patting it dry with a small towel.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 28, 2024
She fixed him with her glowing red eyes and bared her fangs.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
Dog owners are baring their teeth on social media after the European Union's top court ruled that pets are not passengers just baggage if they get lost in transit.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2025
News reports and social media accounts in Mexico have widely circulated images of U.S. agents in tactical gear facing off against protesters baring Mexican flags.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2025
By baring these women's realities - and their romantic desires - Latey cemented its place as the "content of its times", producer Metasebia Yoseph tells the BBC.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2025
The joy of reaching the final, and in the manner he did it, was shown by Norrie baring his teeth and shouting his pleasure towards his team.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2024
He knows Ma and the girls’ eyes are still upon him, baring down on his back, but he must not turn to look at them lest his courage fail him.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
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