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
Yes, we fled to the east, into the Bonecruel Mountains and out into the fire-swept Plateau of Drume, but we left because we were not prepared for a barbarian horde to attack on griffin-back.”
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
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