Etymology
Origin of barbed
Example Sentences
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Xue's post has since been taken down - but the dust from the barbed exchanges hasn't settled yet.
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The split from Alejandro seems to inspire the record's most barbed lyric.
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The star of The Traitors Series 3, who was eliminated on episode two, previously told the BBC that the pain she suffered was comparable to that of "barbed wire around her stomach".
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Instead, a building at an airport, lying behind barbed wire and security checkpoints.
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Between the outpost and the ruins rises a sand berm about two stories high and topped with barbed wire.
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