barber
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For a couple of years, Trinidad juggled barber college, work at FedEx and missionary work through his L.A. church, Iglesia De Jesucristo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
A barber is offering free back-to-school haircuts, stationery and school essentials to help families facing rising costs.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
"So, we all started to panic; some people jumped out of windows, and some ran outside," the 31-year-old barber told AFP as he stroked his mother's leg under her hospital blanket.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
The partnership with the barber was short-lived, however, and when Johnson went to a bank to try to borrow $250 to start a company, he was turned down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Then the barber used some of them pointy killing-looking scissors to cut the cap’n’s chin and muttonchops down afore he soaped ’em up and shaved ’em off.
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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His daughter says the 57-year-old also has a touch of vanity, insisting on visiting Korean barbers whom he believed styled his hair the best.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
Last year, three barbers in Kunar province were jailed for three to five months for breaching the ministry's rules, according to a UN report.
From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 2026
“Carson is a working-class community of janitors, barbers, bus drivers and longshoremen,” said attorney Gary Praglin of the Santa Monica-based law firm Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2026
He also got a haircut at a barbers in a township in the capital, Lusaka - to the delight of thousands of people who flocked there as news spread on social media.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2026
“Do you know what I like about military barbers? You guys are such high class people. I mean it. Sincerely, I do. The absolute cream of military personnel. Handsome, aristocratic, urbane, without being affected.”
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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Trees barbered to resemble incense pots and traditional Yemeni daggers.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 7, 2021
After growing steadily more uncomfortable with the length of my regularly barbered hair, I decided to go for it and cut the mop.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 24, 2020
“I found it exhilarating, depressing, tawdry and moving in almost equal measure. It’s a big American story that rolls across barbered lawns and then leaves you stranded in some all-night Sam’s Club of the soul.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2018
Coaches who have barbered the rulebook like Edward Scissorhands look upon Calipari with a weird mixture of awe and disdain.
From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2010
Behind the gentlemen’s barbered heads, dark mahogany planks stand at attention.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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Education could also extend to training those in hairdressing, barbering and beauty therapy to spot potentially cancerous moles on clients and encourage them to seek medical advice.
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
"I started barbering, working as a Saturday lad in Skelmersdale," says Woods.
From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2025
A T-level in hairdressing, barbering and beauty therapy was due to begin in 2023 but was delayed before being scrapped.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2024
To pay for the Federal Way barbering class, the club used federal funds from the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, said Jessica Summerton-Moore, YouthForce’s program director.
From Seattle Times ● May 10, 2023
The snipping was only a kind of mental barbering, a limbering up.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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