barbarian

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When Augustine died in 430, the Vandals, a barbarian people who had crossed the Rhine decades earlier and already fought their way through Gaul and Iberia, had reached the gates of Hippo.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

Coach Tom Flores fined the 6-foot-8 barbarian $1,000, and Philadelphia coach Dick Vermeil said he would have been harsher.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2025

The barbarian monarchs of the West sent hordes east—a counterinvasion we call the First Crusade.

From Slate • Dec. 15, 2024

Moving between ages seems to be linked to crises - like barbarian invasions, civil wars and plagues - though exactly how this will work is unclear.

From BBC • Aug. 20, 2024

Mr. McElroy in world history, who announced that we were going to start by studying the barbarian hordes of western Russia, and then looked at me.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt