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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Abel, for example, is obviously a Democrat, as he slipped more than a few anti-Reagan barbs into his presentation.
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Everybody liked grandmotherly Barbara Bush, who kept her wicked barbs private and mostly stayed out of public political combat.
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His jeering remarks had hidden barbs, and just went to prove how little he cared either way.
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The performance had the legislature, including the subjects of the barbs, rocking with laughter.
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We thrive on the superficial barb , and shrink from the deeper, more complex, less titillating ambiguities of an issue.
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Yesterday, Mrs Aquino aimed her sharpest barbs at her civilian enemies.