barbed
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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
Much like manufacturing barbed wire, making clothes in the 1860s was a time-consuming effort, with pretty much everything people wore sewn by hand.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
Thai flags flapped in the breeze and barbed wire lay scattered in Klong Paeng, another border village on the Thai military trip.
From Barron's • Feb. 7, 2026
Instead of turning for home when we leave the graveyard, Boomer and I walk to the meadows, duck underneath the barbed wire strand, and slip into the Spinney.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
Vocabulary lists containing barbed
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