barbed
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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
So who is the father of barbed wire?
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
In Jhapa, soldiers with armoured trucks manned barbed wire barricades around the counting centre.
From Barron's • Mar. 7, 2026
His team would spend several days with the men in the village, inside the fence made of enormous bamboo stakes or barbed wire.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
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