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bar
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  • If he had just been trying to squeeze by the bar with as little as possible he could have done it a lot sooner, for back in those days, or now for that matter, it didn't take any master mind to pass the bar examination.   (source)
  • So anyhow, are you planning to stay a student until you pass the bar exam?†   (source)
  • As you know, before I can be reinstated I have to pass the bar exam, no small feat for an old fart like me.†   (source)
  • Jake's trump card was a key provision in Mississippi law that required a disbarred lawyer to take the bar exam before being reinstated.†   (source)
  • If Lucien wanted to be a lawyer again, he would be required to suffer through the ordeal of the bar exam.†   (source)
  • I was playing it all from my book on torts, boning up for the bar exam.†   (source)
  • After passing the bar exam, he was all set to take over a country law practice.†   (source)
  • His firm wanted him to come into the office full-time after his graduation from high school, read law with them, and eventually take the bar exam.†   (source)
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  • Both were doing thirty days for starting a fight, which ended in broken bar mirrors and a few bones, over who could spit the farthest at the Dog-Gone Beer Hall.   (source)
    bar = common meaning
  • She tends bar at the Elk's Lodge.   (source)
    bar = a counter where alcoholic drinks are served
  • When I got home and had crept up to my room, I remembered how Phoebe had shown me some things in her room that reminded her of her mother: a handmade birthday card, a photograph of Phoebe and her mother, and a bar of lavender soap.   (source)
    bar = thin block
  • Perhaps it was only the sunlight on boards that were scrubbed smooth and white, or perhaps it was the feeling of peace that lay across the room as tangibly as the bar of sunshine.   (source)
  • The night before that, he and I and Sherrie were at the bar.   (source)
    bar = a place where alcoholic drinks are sold
  • He got a license immediately, and he got a swell location, and he got the jack to put in leather chairs kind to the femurs, and a circular bar;   (source)
    bar = a counter where alcoholic drinks are served
  • At the toppings bar, Uncle Carlos breaks out into his fro-yo rap.†   (source)
  • Shawn pulled her onto his lap and ate the bar in three bites.†   (source)
  • Their beer-filled mouths cheered him back to the bar.†   (source)
  • We had to climb onto a huge boulder in a field, and even then we rarely had more than one bar of reception, so we hardly ever spoke to him.†   (source)
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  • It's a good feeling, making Ruby laugh, so I draw another picture, and another, along the edges of the paper: an orange, a candy bar, a carrot.†   (source)
  • She took it, then walked back to the bar.†   (source)
  • The bar's laughter, then its full-throated echo followed.†   (source)
  • Brian snatched up the chocolate bar and divided it into four pieces.†   (source)
  • She had already considered the possibility of sneaking onto another bus, but the bar codes on their waistbands make that an impossibility.†   (source)
  • While sitting at a bar, he heard a sudden, loud sound, perhaps a car backfiring.†   (source)
  • If the Dursleys wake up, I'm dead," said Harry as he tied the rope tightly around a bar and Fred revved up the car.†   (source)
  • He never managed to use his bar of soap, which was just as well, because he wouldn't have had time to rinse off the suds.†   (source)
  • He used to sit right there at the end of the bar and tell us these amazing stories of his travels.†   (source)
  • At the door I held on to a cell bar like it was the long bone in Rosaleen's arm.†   (source)
  • A candy bar.†   (source)
  • Hoo bit off half a chocolate bar.†   (source)
  • Sometime later, the man in the yellow suit slipped down from the saddle and tied the Tucks' old horse to a bar of the Fosters' fence.†   (source)
  • I started eating a candy bar.†   (source)
  • I pinched it from our well-stocked bar.†   (source)
  • In one back pocket he had a Hershey's candy bar and in the other a bottle of Off!†   (source)
  • And so it seemed like a dream to be able to walk down to the corner store and buy a bar of candy and an ice-cold bottle of Coke.†   (source)
  • "Because I'm the littlest," Kitty says, climbing onto a stool at the breakfast bar.†   (source)
  • It reminded me of when I was six years old and Farshid would tell me what a wonderful sister I was and then ask me to share my Kit Kat bar with him.†   (source)
  • Ten minutes later, the progress bar reached its end.†   (source)
  • I was just going to get some fruit juice at the bar anyway.†   (source)
  • I am someone you have met in a bar.†   (source)
  • At a bar, she looked up at a mutual friend of ours and said, without a hint of irony, "You have a very small head."†   (source)
  • As if instructed by Houstek, the officer turns away and walks down the line of young men waiting to be numbered, all of whom, bar one, have their heads bowed.†   (source)
  • "And what's more, I've been banned from my local bar!†   (source)
  • Thankfully the detective and the investigator took the situation as seriously as we did, and supported our desire for a restraining order to bar Mona from further contact with Cassie.†   (source)
  • Shea and I sat in front of the Cue Lounge, a bar and billiards club whose facade was painted black.†   (source)
  • There weren't even any NPCs behind the front counter or the snack bar.†   (source)
  • A chocolate bar!†   (source)
  • Mr. Dimming placed the candy bar on my tray.†   (source)
  • The bar lifted and the crowd went "Ahhhhh."†   (source)
  • A bar of soap?†   (source)
  • She pointed down at a giant road-train passing below, the only light coming from it a dim red flicker from underneath, the navigation laser reading the bar codes painted onto the road.†   (source)
  • My name was hanging above a bar holding a week's worth of dresses.†   (source)
  • After a while he just sat on the bunk eating a bar of chocolate.†   (source)
  • "Let's get on with it," he famously declared at a bar association event in 1988.†   (source)
  • They gave her a chocolate bar and they wiped her face and asked if the tattooed man had ridden a motorbike, and Scarlett's mother and father, now that they were relieved and not afraid for her any longer were angry with themselves and with her, and they told each other that it was the other one's fault for letting their little girl play in a cemetery, even if it was a nature reserve, and that the world was a very dangerous place these days, and if you didn't keep your eyes on your…†   (source)
  • I grab another bar, find another place to wedge my foot.†   (source)
  • And they found my grandma's second husband in a bar.†   (source)
  • CUT TO: Two OLD MEN in front of John-John's Bar-B-Q looking at the scene as the car drives off.†   (source)
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