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They beat themselves up over both of those performances - "jobby" was midfielder John McGinn's description and no bard could have come up with a better description.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

Britain’s long war, meeting the Mets, a honky-tonk bard and more.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026

One of those under-recognized voices is Michele Serros, Oxnard’s bard of all trades — poet, essayist, scriptwriter, spoken word artist — who died way too young in 2015 at 48.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2024

Joshua Oppenheimer is our age’s great bard of cognitive dissonance.

From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2024

Taran and the bard drew their swords, Gurgi nocked an arrow into his bowstring, and the weary band made ready to defend themselves as best they could.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

This renders Mr. Bacon’s subtitle inapt: “The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald” has been told and retold by authors and bards.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2025

Oh, SZA — just to add to the bards.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2025

The exploits of Sundiata Keita, a near-mythical figure in the Mande oral tradition, have been passed down by generations of bards.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

In the same way we accept that bar fights get more dangerous if someone decides to punch up Motörhead’s “Ace of Spades” on a jukebox, bards can cast spells in Dungeons & Dragons.

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2023

A harp with a beautiful, sweeping curve was slung from his shoulder, but otherwise he looked nothing at all like the bards Taran had learned about from The Book of Three.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander

You’ll note that they’re using both normal cassowaries as well as a twin-mounted fully barded champron-equipped Maximum cassowary with criniere and boiled leather peytral.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 1, 2014

He rode a coal-black horse barded all in white, with the pure white shield of the Kingsguard strapped to his arm.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

His steel was a deep cobalt, even the blunt momingstar he wielded with such deadly effect, his mount barded in the quartered sun-and-moon heraldry of House Tarth.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

The horse was barded in bronze- colored trappings dyed to match the rider's cloak and emblazoned with the burning tree.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

The Frenche kyng sette hymself on a courser barded, covered with purple sattin, broched with golde, and embraudered with corbyns fethers round and buckeled; the fether was blacke and hached with gold.

From The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries by Sutherland Menzies