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Sometimes kindness looks like lowering the bar just enough that you can actually step over it.

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026

But the prime minster said it was "unacceptable for there to be a legislative bar against people of any faith performing all the functions of my office".

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

At a trendy wine bar in Kyiv, locals pop by to sip Zakarpattia whites or get a bottle of wine into the late summer evening.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

“Unique ballot envelope identifiers, such as bar codes, enable confirmation that only citizens receive and cast ballots,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

Carefully, Joe pulled Frank back up, until he could grab the bar with both hands.

From "Hopping Mad (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #4)" by Franklin W. Dixon

Formerly a Golden Dawn MP from 2012 to 2019, Kasidiaris was jailed for six years and worked off the rest of his sentence while behind bars.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

It’s easy to read the report and come away with the idea that eating too many granola bars or bags of pretzels could be doing harm to your family without you realizing it.

From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2026

“It wasn’t pretty, but it was gritty,” Chesney said Saturday, dropping bars.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

Police seized 35 gold amulets, along with about 1.5kg of gold bars and jewellery, worth an estimated 6.04 million baht, from Punyavee's home.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

As their comrades stood by, the boys lifted the metal bars and shoved open the heavy doors.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Legal experts have noted however that Kasidiaris is still barred from running for office until 2033, when his term was to nominally end.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

In February, CBS lawyers barred “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” from running its interview with him, so the show posted it online.

From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2026

In 1851, an escaped enslaved man named William Parker stood at the door of a Lancaster County farmhouse and barred access to four fugitive enslaved men he was protecting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Laura Overdeck is barred from testifying or introducing witnesses after the court found she obtained confidential emails from her husband’s laptop.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Several cages had been toppled, their barred metal doors swinging in the morning breeze.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

The government wants to bring in a barring service, but the inquiry warned this will be undermined if the system continues to turn a blind eye like it does.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

Nearly everyone standing behind the podium, barring a city council member or two, held a similar picture.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

Australia implemented legislation barring children from social media platforms in December, part of a world-first crackdown designed to protect children from online bullying and "predatory algorithms".

From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026

States also claim Meta committed unfair business practices by letting users create multiple Instagram accounts, which they say allows kids to circumvent parental controls and rules barring children under age of 13 from creating accounts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

But after a brief stretch, the tunnel simply stopped with what looked like a sheet of metal barring the way.

From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz