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beard

[beerd] / bɪərd /


NOUN
decoy
Synonyms
VERB
confront
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG


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He may have been in the video, he has long hair and a huge beard.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

Outwardly, Kenig, with a sharp-featured face and salt-and-pepper beard, does not reveal his inner wounds.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

Ted: “. . .I mean, really, this isn’t really a beard yet.”

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

Zaidi, who dresses in dark blue suits and has a bushy black mustache and cropped beard, was quickly embraced by Washington.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Forest’s bushy beard is gone, and his hair is cut short.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

In addition, Moody’s team made 37 wigs and 25 beards for the main cast, and approximately 720 elf ears.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

Mohammed Ashim has been cutting hair and trimming beards for four years in Bengaluru.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

This may explain why he has no problem when white men have beards, as seen on his church leader, Doug Wilson, or the many celebrities the defense secretary likes to take photos with.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

About 20 aid workers were arrested in June near the Iran border in Herat province by Afghanistan's morality police, because their beards were not long enough.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

They sing, an antique language as ragged and strange as their beards, a language closer to mine than to their own.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

Quigley, bearded and burly but soft-edged with a deliberative way of speaking that can serve a range of emotions, is brilliant, and Patel balances him admirably.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

That’s his superpower: He’s a bearded human worm.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

Marsh harriers, bearded tits, flocks of waders and overwintering ducks and geese are a regular sight for visitors, along with otters, water voles, fen raft spiders, orchids and rare sharp-leaved pondweed.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

Hidden in the basement of a supermarket, the thick smell of sweat hangs heavy in the air as she pushes weights alongside bearded muscle-men.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

He stuffs his tzitzit into his waistband, puts his curls under his flat cap and tucks his bearded chin into his coat collar.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper

Some say this bearding trend began with the 1980s television series “Miami Vice,” wherein the actor Don Johnson sported a 5-o’clock shadow that was much commented on.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

There’s talk of bearding dragons in their den and of forthcoming battles, plus a rather lovely foray into a deep cave system.

From The Guardian ● May 11, 2016

One can only imagine what Mr. Beale might have done with the character if the script had been more daring in bearding Stalin in his innermost lair.

From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2012

Through a popular book and a starring role on IFC’s “Whisker Wars,” a seven-episode documentary series, Jack Passion, 28, has become the bushy face of the bearding game.

From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2011

The grey moss grew thickly here, covering the fallen stones in great mounds and bearding all the towers.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin


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