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barnyard

[bahrn-yahrd] / ˈbɑrnˌjɑrd /


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Reuters reports that they’re resorting to barnyard language to attack Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s new prime minister.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 17, 2025

Instead, he draws from the writer’s letters and diaries, as well as the longer-form works like the barnyard political allegory “Animal Farm” and the dystopian novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four.”

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 7, 2025

One article said, “A pop-up barnyard would be less inappropriate for the neighborhood.”

From Slate Jul. 17, 2025

I learned the many shades of stink — from barnyard funk to gym sock to overripe fruit — and how to spot the difference.

From Salon Jul. 6, 2025

Jomon sites often contain remains of edible plants that are native to Japan as wild species but are also grown as crops today, including adzuki bean, mung bean, and barnyard millet.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

But there is real risk in our own backyards — and barnyards.

From New York Times Jul. 25, 2023

Montreal, with its own private atmosphere of celebration and voluptuous sorrow, standing as it does alongside the snowbound barnyards of Vermont, the silent forests of Maine.

From New York Times Nov. 2, 2018

For example, when Bouckaert wanted “funky” aromas, such as the smell of barnyards or horse blankets, but without the usual accompanying fruity notes, he tried four of the lab’s strains that showed some promise.

From Nature Jul. 25, 2016

Thousands of basketball-obsessed kids, in schoolyards and backyards and barnyards around the country, may be trying a new kind of shot come Tuesday morning.

From Time Apr. 8, 2014

When the fields yielded little game, they worked the barnyards and farm gardens.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George




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