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Sudden distant gunfire sends them scrambling toward a barbwire border fence, their luggage unceremoniously flung over the barrier by guards as the van speeds away.
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Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024
See that strand of barbwire the beaver has to step over?
—Kris Millgate, Field & Stream, 4 Oct. 2023
But that involves the labor-intensive process of lugging bales of barbwire into remote areas.
—Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Oct. 2021
Jumping over walls, crawling under barbwire, climbing up ropes.
—Jon Blau, Indianapolis Star, 8 June 2020
So while the water belongs to the people, the riverbed does not, and ranchers can, and frequently do, run barbwire across the water.
—Carson Vaughan, Outside Online, 27 Jan. 2020
Out in the pasture, past the barbwire fence that surrounds his Jackson County ranch house, Birdseye saw about 75 of his cows, tightly bunched in a defensive triangular formation, nervously staring at something behind him.
—Kale Williams, OregonLive.com, 10 June 2018
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Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024
See that strand of barbwire the beaver has to step over?
—Kris Millgate, Field & Stream, 4 Oct. 2023
But that involves the labor-intensive process of lugging bales of barbwire into remote areas.
—Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Oct. 2021
Jumping over walls, crawling under barbwire, climbing up ropes.
—Jon Blau, Indianapolis Star, 8 June 2020
So while the water belongs to the people, the riverbed does not, and ranchers can, and frequently do, run barbwire across the water.
—Carson Vaughan, Outside Online, 27 Jan. 2020
Out in the pasture, past the barbwire fence that surrounds his Jackson County ranch house, Birdseye saw about 75 of his cows, tightly bunched in a defensive triangular formation, nervously staring at something behind him.
—Kale Williams, OregonLive.com, 10 June 2018
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“Barbwire.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/barbwire. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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barbwire
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barb·wire
(ˈ)bä(r)b-ˈwī(ə)r 
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