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On Tuesday, Forsythe said that in the absence of such "meaningful action", official engagements through the joint Executive Office should be stopped immediately as a "bare minimum".
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
Some Airbnb hosts are threatening to quit the platform, raise their housekeeping fees or pare their rental properties down to the bare essentials rather than accept new restrictions on checkout chores.
From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026
Two decades ago, Baron Cohen used his hit film "Borat: Cultural Learnings of American for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" as a sociological mirror to lay bare certain prejudices within US society.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
The state was apportioned a bare 300,000 acre-feet a year in 1928, when Las Vegas was merely a dusty outpost miles from the Hoover Dam construction site.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
I stared at his hand, imagining taking it again, my wool mittens in his bare fingers.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
"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
These people, in other words, were also nostalgic for earlier times; we aren’t the first generation to wish our children’s playroom shelves were barer.
From Slate ● Dec. 24, 2018
Through his verse we see the barer landscapes of Benjamin and Judah without shadow or other relief, every ugly detail exposed by the ruthless noon, and beyond them the desert hills shimmering through the heat.
From Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 by Sir George Adam Smith
If this familiar-looking advice seems like the barest minimum in modern cybersecurity hygiene, that’s because it is.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026
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
Greenspan exhibited a deft touch with financial markets, saying the barest minimum in his statements but seemingly always conveying what traders wanted to hear.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026
This is the barest minimum required when reading a picture book to children.
From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2025
Something about their eyes hidden under those shaggy manes...Frank had gotten sick from the barest glimpse.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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
All conveyed with a smile: chin down, eyes up, teeth bared.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2024
Supermodel Christie Brinkley bared all Wednesday — in her face, that is — announcing her skin cancer diagnosis in a graphic Instagram post that doubled as a PSA.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 14, 2024
She bared her claws, thrashing and digging wherever they happened to land.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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
On Aug. 1, the Grammy-winning emcee announced that she was pregnant again, baring her baby bump in a pair of photos shared to Instagram.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2024
Ignatius bellowed, baring a tan fang or two.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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