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bark

[bahrk] / bɑrk /
NOUN
plant covering
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STRONGEST






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The team also experimented with a simpler approach that involved burning birch bark near a solid surface, such as a stone.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

Iñárritu portrays the average person as a seal, ready to bark and clap at anything that so much as alludes to reality.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

File it under the dog that didn’t bark.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Wall Street is growing increasingly suspicious that there’s little bite to his bark.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

He washed the hide in water mixed with crumbled oak bark to loosen the hairs, then stretched it between two saplings -well out of Wolf’s leaping-range.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver


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