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barn

[bahrn] / bɑrn /
NOUN
animal shelter
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The charming home comes with a pool and four-stall horse barn on nearly 2 acres in the “sought-after community of Horseshoe Acres.”

From MarketWatch Jul. 13, 2026

"The piece of its upper arm bone that we have is about 4 inches long, so the entire dinosaur probably had something like a four-foot wingspan, around the size of a barn owl."

From Science Daily Jun. 23, 2026

Half the golf carts in the barn didn’t run.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 11, 2026

The Knicks had swept the favored Spurs in their home barn, edging closer to a long-forlorn franchise’s first championship since Nixon was huddling with Haldeman.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 9, 2026

Sure enough, it wasn’t long until I heard a big racket out in the barn lot.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls




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