barbed
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Peace turned out to be no less barbed with difficulties than war.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
The group - consisting of about eight to ten tourists - reached the ground and made their way to the edge of the site, which was surrounded by a barbed wire fence.
From BBC • Apr. 25, 2026
He’ll stick around through the series, offering barbed commentary and something like support: “If I humiliate you, it’s to save you from the bigger humiliation of remaining as you are.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026
In Jhapa, soldiers with armoured trucks manned barbed wire barricades around the counting centre.
From Barron's • Mar. 7, 2026
Men crawled out of their trenches to repair strands of barbed wire or to clear a path through the wire for a planned attack the next morning.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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