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The candidates exchanged barbed comments during the debate.
barbed satire on American academia
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The shoe style includes a barbed wire design on the foxing, canvas uppers, cotton laces and Travis Barker logo detailing on the heel and tongue.
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Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 11 June 2026
After netting a Golden Globe nomination for her film debut in 1978's Corvette Summer, Annie Potts joined the cast of Ghostbusters, played the ultimate Cool Girl record store clerk in Pretty in Pink (1986), and essayed her most iconic role as barbed single-mother Mary Jo Shively on Designing Women.
—Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 8 June 2026
To prevent interactions with outsiders, the government's environmental impact report proposed using barbed wire to fence off areas Shompen communities are known to inhabit.
—Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 7 June 2026
Demonstrators have also gathered on the southern coastline, where excavators recently began clearing the area and workers erected a barbed wire fence around the beach, preventing locals from accessing it.
—Brooke Migdon, PEOPLE, 4 June 2026
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Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 11 June 2026
After netting a Golden Globe nomination for her film debut in 1978's Corvette Summer, Annie Potts joined the cast of Ghostbusters, played the ultimate Cool Girl record store clerk in Pretty in Pink (1986), and essayed her most iconic role as barbed single-mother Mary Jo Shively on Designing Women.
—Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 8 June 2026
To prevent interactions with outsiders, the government's environmental impact report proposed using barbed wire to fence off areas Shompen communities are known to inhabit.
—Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 7 June 2026
Demonstrators have also gathered on the southern coastline, where excavators recently began clearing the area and workers erected a barbed wire fence around the beach, preventing locals from accessing it.
—Brooke Migdon, PEOPLE, 4 June 2026
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“Barbed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/barbed. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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