barbed
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Why she’s looking for Walter is unclear, but as she and Lyssa chat, another wanderer enters, Judith, who exchanges barbed dialogue with Quincy—and then invites her to join the brunch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Higdon rolled under a barbed wire fence to escape.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
Working under the bridge's blue lights, dozens of Taiwanese army combat engineers assisted by cranes and trucks set up layers of concrete and steel barriers, barbed wire and Hesco walls along the nearly one-kilometre-long bridge.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
It is also true that just a matter of weeks ago the new chancellor was being remarkably barbed about the government department he now leads.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Or that someone was just here, right before Boomer and I slipped under the barbed wire.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
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