barber
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“I’m frustrated there is nobody building the art gallery, the music room, the barber shop, the bowling alley or the hotel,” Shriver said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
"So, we all started to panic; some people jumped out of windows, and some ran outside," the 31-year-old barber told AFP as he stroked his mother's leg under her hospital blanket.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
“I have a Cuban friend who’s in Miami, he’s a barber, and he tells me, ‘Man, I’ve got a car, I’ve got everything, but I don’t have time to enjoy any of it.’”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Memmzy Ozy, a barber in Frinton, said: "He's alright, you know. I trust Nigel. Hopefully he'll be the winner."
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
"Sancho, go back to the mountain," the barber commanded.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
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While many barbers began working from home or their backyards , Hector bought the bus and redesigned it into a mobile barbershop.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
His daughter says the 57-year-old also has a touch of vanity, insisting on visiting Korean barbers whom he believed styled his hair the best.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 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
“Carson is a working-class community of janitors, barbers, bus drivers and longshoremen,” said attorney Gary Praglin of the Santa Monica-based law firm Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2026
Somehow, the barbers always became self-important, thinking of themselves as tough, no-nonsense guys because they cut the hair of tough, no-nonsense guys every day.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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Trees barbered to resemble incense pots and traditional Yemeni daggers.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 7, 2021
After growing steadily more uncomfortable with the length of my regularly barbered hair, I decided to go for it and cut the mop.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 24, 2020
“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
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
Behind the gentlemen’s barbered heads, dark mahogany planks stand at attention.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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Social media has been "massive" for the barbering industry, says dad-of-three Alsanawi, whose Instagram is filled with videos of him giving players including England vice-captain Declan Rice fresh trims.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
"I started barbering, working as a Saturday lad in Skelmersdale," says Woods.
From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2025
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
The Boys & Girls Clubs plans to offer more barbering classes and guide kids into an apprenticeship, which is one route to obtain a state license.
From Seattle Times ● May 10, 2023
I do not think I ever really hated him until he had that little spell of superiority at lunch—that and when he went through all that barbering.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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