bare
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Call us cute if you must, but don’t be surprised when we bare our teeth in a snarl.”
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
Because now “it’s the bare minimum,” said forward Dearica Hamby, whose input — dedicated spaces for family and naps — was incorporated into the building’s design.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Focaccia has become de facto sandwich bread or makeshift pizza crust elsewhere in Italy, but it tends to be bare bones in Genoa, where it has been made since the Middle Ages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
But the number of toilets did not match the number of visitors and a popular boat race in 1870 laid bare the lack of facilities.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
The patients walk the colony with bare and blistered feet.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
"All around me staff are leaving, staff are crying... many people are already voting with their feet and leaving. But of course that just strips the service even barer."
From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2022
A soul barer and a tireless collaborator, Nate Dogg was the preeminent rap vocalist of the 1990s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2022
A glacier can provide some protection, preserving piles of snow year-round that can even be deployed on barer ski pistes elsewhere on the slopes.
From Reuters ● Aug. 27, 2021
Rather than making collective progress on dealing with the virus, the contours of our inability to do so are being laid, somehow, barer.
From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2020
It was scarcely barer or more dingy and dim than the rest of the kirks in country places were in those days; but it was very small, and it had windows only on one side.
From Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not by G. H. (George Henry) Edwards
Pearl diving often relied on the barest necessities: a noseclip, leather finger covers and a basket to gather oysters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
MarketWatch Picks: My Social Security benefits ‘were cut to the barest minimum’ after I retired.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026
The assistant referee did actually flag for offside, but it was extremely tight and VAR subsequently spent several minutes checking Archer's position, with the Saints forward eventually being ruled onside by the barest of margins.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2024
One theory is that men just aren’t taught about the finer points of hygiene—that because cleanliness is dismissed as a feminine trait, parents give boys only the barest instruction in why and how to clean.
From Slate ● May 17, 2024
His voice was tinged with the barest trace of hope.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
Behind the squad's pride are raw emotions, which were bared by assistant manager Anthony Barry during his half-time interview with BBC One on Saturday night - conducted when England were 4-0 up.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
The pages capture the inner thoughts of someone who found himself at the center of history, as if Oppenheimer grabbed a pen and bared his soul during the Manhattan Project.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
"I bared my life, I went through so much, I dedicated myself to sobriety and God told me that I would be rewarded."
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2025
Hundreds of others bared their disappointments at crossing points along the border.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2025
Rumpy bared his fangs at the smoking-platform and then looked up at Nhamo, who was watching from her shelter.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
Dog owners are baring their teeth on social media after the European Union's top court ruled that pets are not passengers just baggage if they get lost in transit.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2025
Australia are the favourites here, but this was a baring of teeth - the Proteas are not going to roll over and have their tummies tickled.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2025
The joy of reaching the final, and in the manner he did it, was shown by Norrie baring his teeth and shouting his pleasure towards his team.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2024
“I like to play with my food,” she taunts, baring rows of sharpened, yellowed teeth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2024
The man fell back, and his pinscher dæmon, who had been baring her teeth at the mild-mannered golden monkey, instantly cowered and tucked her tail stump as low as it would go.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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