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barber

[bahr-ber] / ˈbɑr bər /


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His home was destroyed and his barber shop was partially damaged.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

The barber chair sits in the middle of the bus, with windows all around and extra seating at the back.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

In Nairobi and other major towns, migrants from the region can be found working in barber shops and salons, construction, operating motorbike taxis and street vending, as well as selling clothes, food and household goods.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 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

That evening, the priest and the barber came to the house: the niece and the housekeeper needed to be comforted, and they also needed to figure out how to find the missing person.

From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios

While many barbers began working from home or their backyards , Hector bought the bus and redesigned it into a mobile barbershop.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

In February last year, the crump of artillery was still distant, but the factories had long since shut down as the city turned into a military camp with restaurants and barbers catering to soldiers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 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

Another man follows the barbers, carrying a small, battered toolbox full of needles and metal attachments.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper

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

He could make out the shapes of pilots sitting around the bar, large shoulders and barbered heads silhouetted in the pale light that spilled into the bar from the dining room.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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

Oasis Restore was hailed as a "revolution in youth justice", where young offenders were given one-on-one support and trained with workshops, such as catering and barbering.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2025

Mr Cox said he had "hope of my barber shop or my barbering tools etc being somewhat salvageable", but "the whole room has gone including everything in it".

From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2023

The Federal Way barbering class had spots for 16 kids; dozens more applied, she said.

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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