barbed wire

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Surveillance camera footage captured Mott scaling an 8-foot fence topped with barbed wire at the perimeter of the airport in just 15 seconds, then walking across the runway.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026

The group - consisting of about eight to ten tourists - reached the ground and made their way to the edge of the site, which was surrounded by a barbed wire fence.

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2026

So who is the father of barbed wire?

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026

In Jhapa, soldiers with armoured trucks manned barbed wire barricades around the counting centre.

From Barron's • Mar. 7, 2026

Tom Yew started saying he'd seen The Great Escape and everyone agreed everything else'd been crap compared to The Great Escape, specially the bit where Steve McQueen gets caught by Nazis on the barbed wire.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell