bare
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Her bank accounts were stripped bare by Medicaid during her illness.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
He added that teams often had to "dig through concrete and twisted steel with their bare hands".
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
“What is required by law as far as disclosure should be treated as the bare minimum,” he said.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026
Disease, disturbance and pollution have meant vast swathes of once vibrant green seabed have been left bare.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Although I was sleeping on the bare earth, I felt cocooned in the sublime rest I had been granted.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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"All around me staff are leaving, staff are crying... many people are already voting with their feet and leaving. But of course that just strips the service even barer."
From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2022
A soul barer and a tireless collaborator, Nate Dogg was the preeminent rap vocalist of the 1990s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2022
Already, the security law has left Hong Kong’s digital spaces — which, during the 2019 protests, became raucous forums for organizing, cheerleading and criticizing the government — significantly barer than before.
From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 2021
A glacier can provide some protection, preserving piles of snow year-round that can even be deployed on barer ski pistes elsewhere on the slopes.
From Reuters ● Aug. 27, 2021
This room was even barer than the other: no fire, no open book, no telephone; only a long, narrow table down the middle, several stout wooden chairs, a window heavily barred, nothing else.
From The Messenger by Elizabeth Robins
Pearl diving often relied on the barest necessities: a noseclip, leather finger covers and a basket to gather oysters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
"We have been given the barest of details and whilst we are supporting the families through this we are urgently seeking a meeting with the appropriate authorities to understand the situation before commenting further."
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
MarketWatch Picks: My Social Security benefits ‘were cut to the barest minimum’ after I retired.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026
This locks in the legitimacy of its Christmas entertainment designation by the barest of definition.
From Salon ● Dec. 7, 2024
Chess strained his ears, trying to listen for even the barest hum of a reply, but there was nothing.
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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Behind the squad's pride are raw emotions, which were bared by assistant manager Anthony Barry during his half-time interview with BBC One on Saturday night - conducted when England were 4-0 up.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
The pages capture the inner thoughts of someone who found himself at the center of history, as if Oppenheimer grabbed a pen and bared his soul during the Manhattan Project.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
Mitch’s cloddish rejection of her is all the more devastating after all that she has courageously bared to him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2025
"I bared my life, I went through so much, I dedicated myself to sobriety and God told me that I would be rewarded."
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2025
He actually bared his teeth and began to make this low, scary growl in his throat.
From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English
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As temperatures rise this summer, Japanese men are baring more leg at work than ever before.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Dog owners are baring their teeth on social media after the European Union's top court ruled that pets are not passengers just baggage if they get lost in transit.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2025
By baring these women's realities - and their romantic desires - Latey cemented its place as the "content of its times", producer Metasebia Yoseph tells the BBC.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2025
“I like to play with my food,” she taunts, baring rows of sharpened, yellowed teeth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2024
No, impossible—but just in case, I growl, and it hisses, baring its pointy little teeth.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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