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
By figuring out how to economically mass produce barbed wire, Glidden certainly solved a problem.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
A collection of small, wall-mounted sculptures, he combined fragments of found and recycled steel and welded them into forms of chains, sharp tools, barbed wire and other metal objects.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
Only the thickness of the barbed wire separated my life in hell from their lives of freedom, but we might as well have been on separate planets.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
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