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For example, Indian users were shown as bearded old men; Mexican users as sombrero-wearing caricatures.—Diana Spehar, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025 The bearded man took Ayyub and Rai by the arm and led them away.—Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025 Inside, one of my colleagues, a bearded intensivist named Shiraz Saleem, was treating a teen-age girl with diabetic ketoacidosis, a life-threatening complication of diabetes caused by a lack of insulin.—Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025 Smith and those other two, but especially the bearded 6-foot All-American, are that good.—Brendan Marks, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bearded
Word History
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of bearded was
before the 12th century
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