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pub

[puhb] / pʌb /


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He will be tagged, banned from going to the pub and have a curfew.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Outside a pub in Clapham, a woman quietly laid flowers for 25-year-old Auguste-Marie Bile-aka Amoa, a bus driver, who was shot dead in in August.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

So it decided to do something else: Apply for a pub license.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

After failing to get a license to sell wine, beer or spirits in the Belfast store, the retailer found an unorthodox solution: Apply for a pub license.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

There were several shops, a post office, a pub, and a little church whose stained-glass windows were glowing jewel-bright across the square.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

He manages nine pubs, and said venue owners across the city will be planning, getting beer in the cellar and food in the fridges.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

In the UK, JD Wetherspoon pubs, a handful of major theatres, Comic-Con, some schools, and Faslane, home of the UK's nuclear submarines, have all chosen to ban them.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

The Daily Express also quotes Badenoch, who is urging the government to end the "hammering" of Britain's shops and pubs.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

John, Croydon: That is one of those decisions that pundits will insist is correct, but people in pubs up and down the country know is bonkers.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

Witchy laughter leaked into the room and music welled up from pubs all around Lyme Regis.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell




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