barbed
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That October, a white sign went up on a barbed wired fence near the Crawford’s home.
From Salon • Jun. 6, 2026
Tons of trash, ridden with glass and barbed wire, had to be removed from Nachusa in tractor trailers before the first of the bison could be reintroduced.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
Surveillance camera footage captured Mott scaling an 8-foot fence topped with barbed wire at the perimeter of the airport in just 15 seconds, then walking across the runway.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 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
Before them, the concentration camp at Auschwitz spread out, a desolate flat place surrounded by heavy chain-link fence, topped with coils of barbed wire.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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