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barb

noun as in point

noun as in pointed comment

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Since July, the pair have fiercely traded barbs in public statements and legal documents.

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The split from Alejandro seems to inspire the record's most barbed lyric.

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Seidel saw a man in the West, with tears in his eyes, staring through barbed wire at a two-year-old boy holding the hand of an old woman in the East.

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The star of The Traitors Series 3, who was eliminated on episode two, previously told the BBC that the pain she suffered was comparable to that of "barbed wire around her stomach".

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Instead, a building at an airport, lying behind barbed wire and security checkpoints.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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