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In February 2025, 65% of those with accommodations passed the California bar compared with 58% of all test takers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

It resonates more with the progress bar instead of the buffering icon.

From Slate • Apr. 4, 2026

“The bar for us in a quality equity strategy is to not take fliers on entrepreneurs in a garage on Sand Hill Road,” Hanson said, referring to Silicon Valley’s so-called Wall Street of the West.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

In the background of a bar, a poster for Roberto Rossellini’s earnest humanitarian classic “Europa ’51” is visible, Jude obviously paying homage to a classic story about a privileged woman’s crisis of charity.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

You arch back, that moment of your knees on the bar making your breath catch just like always, but then you’re up, sitting on the bar.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith