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barber

[bahr-ber] / ˈbɑr bər /


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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

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

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

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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