bare

Games run well - really the bare minimum considering the price tag - and it's easy enough to use.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

For our presence to take hold, we must lay bare the emotions we covet so stubbornly, the emotions found in the look of those we love, of those we call family.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Award show producers seemed to scramble for hosts that didn’t already have a record of ruffling feathers and could, at the bare minimum, garner a few chuckles from the crowd.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

But the very glaciers and mountains giving Nepal this massive natural advantage are succumbing to global warming - and last Wednesday's deadly floods have laid bare the risks to the nation's hydropower ambitions.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

The rest were just rectangular cutouts in the wall with bare mattresses.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

"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

It looks barer, and is overshadowed by that peculiarly comfortless air always given by chimneys or machinery of mines.

From Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts by Rosalind Northcote

The Hilltop Youth establish the barest of footholds on open land with temporary lodgings and, in many cases, later build homes and raise families.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

If this familiar-looking advice seems like the barest minimum in modern cybersecurity hygiene, that’s because it is.

From Slate ● Aug. 19, 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

Greenspan exhibited a deft touch with financial markets, saying the barest minimum in his statements but seemingly always conveying what traders wanted to hear.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026

The voice was light, perhaps only a child’s voice, singing sweetly and thinly, on the barest breath, and Eleanor smiled and remembered, hearing the little song more clearly than Mrs. Montague’s voice continuing about planchette.

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson

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

Zohran Mamdani bared his arm in an act of love.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026

In a hotly-contested race, teeth were occasionally bared and there was some jostling for position in the closing sprint.

From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2025

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

The horses snarled and bared their fangs at Annabeth.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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

Family members and friends fiddled with the placards they wore baring the brothers’ photographs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2025

It doesn't feel like a difficult thing to do, or something that feels like I'm baring my soul or anything.

From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2025

Gwin climbed up to his shoulder, baring his tiny teeth, sharp as splinters of glass, as if he had recognized the hatred in Meggie’s eyes as they rested on his master.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke