Etymology
Origin of barred
Example Sentences
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When Beck started school in 2020, players were still barred from making much more than tuition, room and board—even as the conferences they played in signed billion-dollar TV contracts.
Immigration raids: Federal immigration agents are barred from nonpublic areas of public schools unless they have a judicial warrant or court order.
From Los Angeles Times
A spokesperson told Barron’s at the time of its launch that Ives is barred from holding the ETF, as well as the stocks it owns.
From Barron's
Support for the PDCI, the country's oldest party, slumped in the legislative elections, while it did not put up a presidential candidate in October after its leader Tidjane Thiam was barred from standing.
From Barron's
In February 2023, when the EU barred shipments of oil products from Russian ports into the bloc, those tankers flocked to Turkey.
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