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“The backstop becomes more important when the barn door is open,” said Matt Gardner, a senior fellow at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a progressive group.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 9, 2025

But ultimately, “access to pasture” means just that—the barn door is open, says Kestrel Burcham, a policy director at the Cornucopia Institute, a nonprofit consumer watchdog group.

From National Geographic • Feb. 16, 2024

Chelsea, meanwhile, couldn't hit a barn door and lost any momentum they may have gained after their recent displays away at Fulham and Burnley.

From BBC • Oct. 29, 2023

“Replacing a swing door with a barn door as the entry to a master bath can provide extra square footage.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 24, 2023

The locksmith brings back a shirtful of vegetables and fills a tin bucket at a spigot and eases shut the barn door and feeds his daughter in the dark.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr




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