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barbarian

[bahr-bair-ee-uhn] / bɑrˈbɛər i ən /




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When Augustine died in 430, the Vandals, a barbarian people who had crossed the Rhine decades earlier and already fought their way through Gaul and Iberia, had reached the gates of Hippo.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

The barbarian monarchs of the West sent hordes east—a counterinvasion we call the First Crusade.

From Slate • Dec. 15, 2024

How could baseball’s greatest position player be benched by the National Baseball Hall of Fame guardians while this ethics barbarian walks through the gate?

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2024

Alan Yuhas interviewed game developers, actors and players across the Forgotten Realms, including an elf sorcerer, a half-elf druid, a tiefling barbarian and a githyanki fighter.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2023

All over Winter, even in frozen barbarian Perunter, it is considered execrably vulgar to talk business while eating.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin




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