barbarian
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Some of the candidates’ fantasy characters were literal — City Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez, a labor organizer running for reelection, was a barbarian named “Hugo the Organizer” using his “righteous indignation” to organize workers.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2026
When Augustine died in 430, the Vandals, a barbarian people who had crossed the Rhine decades earlier and already fought their way through Gaul and Iberia, had reached the gates of Hippo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
The barbarian monarchs of the West sent hordes east—a counterinvasion we call the First Crusade.
From Slate ● Dec. 15, 2024
Alan Yuhas interviewed game developers, actors and players across the Forgotten Realms, including an elf sorcerer, a half-elf druid, a tiefling barbarian and a githyanki fighter.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2023
All over Winter, even in frozen barbarian Perunter, it is considered execrably vulgar to talk business while eating.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Greeks first mentioned the “Keltoi” in the sixth century B.C.; later Greek and Roman writers labeled their brave northern adversaries barbarians, Gauls or Galatians.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
They don’t trust us barbarians to care about a world that doesn’t look like our own.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2025
Rainer leads the hapless dame into a sparkling cavern, where the queen of the barbarians herself, Conann, is perched on a high tower, clutching a human heart that looks more like a Christmas tree ornament.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2024
Prof Scull said it all suggests "we have been underestimating the sophistication and capacity of the societies of 5th to 7th Century England" seeing them as post-Roman barbarians.
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2023
Hitler knew it would be much easier for the West to mobilize against a nation of barbarians than a civilized nation.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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