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barber

[bahr-ber] / ˈbɑr bər /


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"My family was low-income when I was growing up. I used to be on free school meals and my parents struggled to get me into a barber shop because of the cost of living."

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

The partnership with the barber was short-lived, however, and when Johnson went to a bank to try to borrow $250 to start a company, he was turned down.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

The teen who filed the lawsuit is now out of custody and working to become a barber.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 30, 2026

Carrasquilla still occasionally cuts hair at the local barber when he is visiting family back home.

From BBC Jun. 27, 2026

Then the barber used some of them pointy killing-looking scissors to cut the cap’n’s chin and muttonchops down afore he soaped ’em up and shaved ’em off.

From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis

It also turns its gaze to those assigned to the lower rungs of the colonial social order - dancing girls, agricultural labourers, barbers and snake charmers.

From BBC Feb. 20, 2026

Last year, three barbers in Kunar province were jailed for three to five months for breaching the ministry's rules, according to a UN report.

From Barron's Feb. 19, 2026

A beauty salon, including barbers, pedicurists and manicurists, is also on hand, along with a laundry service and dry cleaners.

From BBC Feb. 3, 2026

Wednesday to pick up his barbers from his downtown business and start cutting hair at Los Angeles Mission in Skid Row.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 26, 2025

Midwives, nurses, dentists, barbers, apothecaries, wandering healers, quack physicians, and next-door neighbors offered opinions on the disease, too.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy

Trees barbered to resemble incense pots and traditional Yemeni daggers.

From Washington Post Nov. 7, 2021

“I found it exhilarating, depressing, tawdry and moving in almost equal measure. It’s a big American story that rolls across barbered lawns and then leaves you stranded in some all-night Sam’s Club of the soul.”

From New York Times Mar. 29, 2018

For now at least this England team can get on with presenting itself to the world, laid out in its splendid new-build sarcophagus, shaved and barbered, newly suited, eyes glazed with entropic reverie.

From The Guardian Oct. 12, 2012

Coaches who have barbered the rulebook like Edward Scissorhands look upon Calipari with a weird mixture of awe and disdain.

From Slate Mar. 16, 2010

Even for the first day, he was almost suspiciously well barbered.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

Social media has been "massive" for the barbering industry, says dad-of-three Alsanawi, whose Instagram is filled with videos of him giving players including England vice-captain Declan Rice fresh trims.

From BBC Jun. 10, 2026

Education could also extend to training those in hairdressing, barbering and beauty therapy to spot potentially cancerous moles on clients and encourage them to seek medical advice.

From BBC May 13, 2026

"I started barbering, working as a Saturday lad in Skelmersdale," says Woods.

From BBC Jan. 10, 2025

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Puget Sound has a tradition of empowering youth, Williams said, and as more kids express interest in trade professions like construction and barbering, the agency is trying to meet demand.

From Seattle Times Nov. 29, 2023

The snipping was only a kind of mental barbering, a limbering up.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides




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