barber
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The teen who filed the lawsuit is now out of custody and working to become a barber.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
Other inmates would ask the young barber for a haircut before their family members visited, Chapati said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
Jacob Cintrón, a barber and photographer in Knoxville, Tenn., works four days while his wife, Anna, 30, a nurse, works two.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Excitement in the town was amplified by Smith's barber offering free haircuts, while roads and even a fish and chip shop were temporarily named after him.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
The barber, leaning against his shop door, stared as I passed.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
Education experts said one possible response to such a scenario is for state legislatures that set licensing requirements to decide some occupations — like barbers and stylists — actually need less training.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
The government is now looking at changing legislation, to allow authorities to close illegal mini-marts, barbers and vape shops for up to a year.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
The crackdown comes after a new £30m High Street organised crime unit was announced in May following a BBC News investigation into illegal mini-marts, vape shops and barbers.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
Last year, three barbers in Kunar province were jailed for three to five months for breaching the ministry's rules, according to a UN report.
From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 2026
Belt and shoes in hand, I let myself be dragged along to the barbers.
From "Night" by Elie Wiesel
Trees barbered to resemble incense pots and traditional Yemeni daggers.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 7, 2021
“I found it exhilarating, depressing, tawdry and moving in almost equal measure. It’s a big American story that rolls across barbered lawns and then leaves you stranded in some all-night Sam’s Club of the soul.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2018
For now at least this England team can get on with presenting itself to the world, laid out in its splendid new-build sarcophagus, shaved and barbered, newly suited, eyes glazed with entropic reverie.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2012
Coaches who have barbered the rulebook like Edward Scissorhands look upon Calipari with a weird mixture of awe and disdain.
From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2010
He could make out the shapes of pilots sitting around the bar, large shoulders and barbered heads silhouetted in the pale light that spilled into the bar from the dining room.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
Education could also extend to training those in hairdressing, barbering and beauty therapy to spot potentially cancerous moles on clients and encourage them to seek medical advice.
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
A T-level in hairdressing, barbering and beauty therapy was due to begin in 2023, but was delayed before eventually being scrapped altogether.
From BBC ● May 10, 2024
Mr Cox said he had "hope of my barber shop or my barbering tools etc being somewhat salvageable", but "the whole room has gone including everything in it".
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2023
But this was the first time the center had hosted an actual barbering class.
From Seattle Times ● May 10, 2023
The snipping was only a kind of mental barbering, a limbering up.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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