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as in beam
a straight piece (as of wood or metal) that is longer than it is wide all of the prison's windows are partially covered with steel bars

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as in streak
a line or long narrow section differing in color from the background the cat had a bar of white down her throat

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as in mound
a pile or ridge of granular matter (as sand or snow) more than one boater has run aground on that treacherous bar of sand in the river

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as in tribunal
an assembly of persons for the administration of justice rather than try and convict the alleged murderer in the mass media, let justice be done at the bar

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as in standard
something set up as an example against which others of the same type are compared we need to raise the bar for what is acceptable behavior in this situation

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verb

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as in to streak
to make stripes on barred the fence with white strips

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as in to guard
to disallow entry into (a place) by means of a physical barrier at the entry point the bikeway was barred by a huge fallen tree

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preposition

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Recent Examples of bar
Noun
According to a motion filed by the prosecution, Rogers met Cribbs at a bar in Tampa and convinced her to drive him home. Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2025 The Ask and Search bar appears throughout the UI, including as a floating Moto AI icon. ArsTechnica, 15 May 2025
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Four years before, Patten was barred by the broker-dealer FINRA from acting as a stockbroker for failing to satisfy an arbitration award of more than $753,000, violating securities laws, and unauthorized trading for churning a client’s account. Dan Mangan, CNBC, 13 May 2025 However, Deadline’s journalist was barred from filming the demonstration by a festival official. Zac Ntim, Deadline, 13 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for bar
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bar
Noun
  • The lights in the hall dimmed completely — and then the room lit up again as hundreds of small beams illuminated the space.
    RoselynMartin Somtochukwu Ilo, Hartford Courant, 11 May 2025
  • On colliding with the plasma, the beam particles are re-ionized, while the collision energy heats the plasma.
    David Szondy May 10, New Atlas, 10 May 2025
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  • Before Bellinger’s big night finished with a drive that appropriately went over Soto’s leaping attempt in right field, Goldschmidt, Williams and Fried did things to set up the latest occurrence in Bellinger’s 13-game hitting streak, the longest active streak.
    Larry Fleisher, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
  • The club fired him in June of 2022, after a 12-game losing streak.
    Sam Blum, New York Times, 19 May 2025
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  • Aiden Jimenez, who struggled in Game 1, is back on the mound to pitch the bottom of the eighth.
    Matt Jones, Arkansas Online, 12 May 2025
  • Attending high school baseball games is free, so the best ticket around might be going to watch Hernandez pitch when he’s expected to be on the mound next Tuesday in Corona’s playoff opener.
    Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2025
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  • The Belle Vue Hotel on Manningham Lane had seen better days by 1985, but, on the day of the fire, this by now rather run-down pub became an impromptu gathering point for the players, coaching staff and their families.
    Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 9 May 2025
  • Over the past month Sheeran has made headlines by playing surprise mini-concerts at other bars in Boston and Nashville, as well as hitting Nashville’s Santa’s Pub a few weeks ago with Noah Kahan for a short dual set and reconstructing the pop-up pub at Coachella.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 8 May 2025
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  • While many of the crimes perpetrated by Putin and his troops are already being investigated and prosecuted, whether by domestic or international tribunals, the crime of aggression is yet to be addressed with comprehensive responses.
    Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes.com, 11 May 2025
  • Dozens of foreign delegations were in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on Friday to endorse the ceasefire proposal and the establishment of a special tribunal to investigate crimes of aggression against Ukraine.
    Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 9 May 2025
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  • Powered by Adelaide, Forbes AI Running a company means facing obstacles that shake your foundation.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
  • Perhaps the biggest obstacle to bilateral relations is Ms. Hasina, whom India refuses to hand over to Bangladesh to stand trial on charges of corruption and human rights abuses.
    Simon Montlake, Christian Science Monitor, 16 May 2025
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  • That figure does come with a footnote, as Kawasaki notes it was measured using the ISO 4106 standard instead of SAE standards and may be inflated compared to using the latter.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 14 May 2025
  • Speaking at the Lowry Theatre in Salford on Wednesday, Davie responded to a question from Nazir Afzal, a board member of the creative industries independent safeguarding agency, about trust and workplace standards.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 14 May 2025
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  • These ingested fluoride products are dispensed at safe doses by doctors and dentists to prevent tooth decay in children who are unable to get adequate fluoride doses from community water systems—something that may become more common as more states and cities remove or ban fluoride from their water.
    Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 16 May 2025
  • Braun signed an executive order in January banning DEI initiatives in state government.
    Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 16 May 2025

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“Bar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bar. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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