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barn

[bahrn] / bɑrn /
NOUN
animal shelter
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"The piece of its upper arm bone that we have is about 4 inches long, so the entire dinosaur probably had something like a four-foot wingspan, around the size of a barn owl."

From Science Daily • Jun. 23, 2026

They are kept in a converted cattle barn, which has metal-fenced elevated walkways looking down on large pools of water surrounded by tropical vegetation.

From BBC • Jun. 19, 2026

Half the golf carts in the barn didn’t run.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

The Knicks had swept the favored Spurs in their home barn, edging closer to a long-forlorn franchise’s first championship since Nixon was huddling with Haldeman.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

“Just before I left the barn, I peeked in the corn crib,” he said.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls




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