Barra
noun
an island in NW Scotland, in the Outer Hebrides: fishing, crofting, tourism. Pop: 1078 (2001)
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Barra
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/ ˈbærə /
noun
barra
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/ ˈbærə /
noun
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BBC NI weather presenter Barra Best says it allows forecasters to "compare one season with another and look back through decades of weather records".
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
The research was led by first authors Nazli Robin and Nicole Barra of the Schertzer Lab at McMaster.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
“We haven’t made excuses, we’ve just continued to perform,” GM Chief Executive Mary Barra said in a Tuesday call with analysts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Barra said the Army had ordered more than 10,000 infantry squad vehicles after an initial 1,200 procurement.
From Barron's
"I named her Barra," she said as the child nursed.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
Altering words and adding the odd slang term, a typical example was: "Zarra marra onna barra, Clara?"
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025
The Queretaro team’s fan club, or "barra," will be banned from attending even local games for three years.
From Fox News ● Mar. 8, 2022
“When you say barra — ‘abroad’ in Egyptian Arabic — the implication is automatically of somewhere better,” Youssef Rakha, an Egyptian novelist, wrote in a 2020 essay, “Barra and Zaman.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2021
Diaz is proud of how efficiently his barra is running the business of football.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 20, 2011
As the Italian has diverse malattie, “divers diseases,” de Lollis suggests that barra should be varias and that maladias was somehow dropped from the text. 410-5 Leones.
From The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 by Julius E. Olson
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