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bar as in:  passed the bar examination

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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)
  • There was no way such an old drunk could study and pass the bar exam.†   (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)
  • 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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meaning too common or rare to warrant focus:

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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
  • 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
  • The mayor looked lost, Councilman Grandy looked like he was about to faint, and the chamber-of-commerce guy looked like he'd swallowed a bar of soap.   (source)
  • He could climb a ways, but then at random a bar seemed to be insubstantial and he fell.   (source)
    bar = a strut or rod that can be used for climbing
  • 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)
    bar = thin block
  • I must have looked like I'd split my lip in a bar brawl.   (source)
    bar = a place where alcoholic drinks are sold
  • The night before that, he and I and Sherrie were at the bar.   (source)
  • 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
  • "Black" Burton, a man evil-tempered and malicious, had been picking a quarrel with a tenderfoot at the bar, when Thornton stepped good-naturedly between.   (source)
    bar = a place where alcoholic drinks are sold
  • At the toppings bar, Uncle Carlos breaks out into his fro-yo rap.†   (source)
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  • She poured the milk and handed me the bowl, then she perched at the bar, directly across from me, and watched as I shoveled spoonfuls into my mouth.†   (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)
  • Remember the street that went from your house to the Qishla, the military bar racks next to Istiqlal School?†   (source)
  • 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)
  • Nonetheless, she turned to the bar in the living room, reached up for a bottle of Scotch, and poured a glass half full.†   (source)
  • As I made my way to the nearest bar, the avatars I passed all stopped to stare and point in my direction.†   (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)
  • She had already considered the possibility of sneaking onto another bus, but the bar codes on their waistbands make that an impossibility.†   (source)
  • Brian snatched up the chocolate bar and divided it into four pieces.†   (source)
  • I lay down in the rear of the old truck for a while but couldn't sleep, so I got up and walked to a bar called Kite's Kave.†   (source)
  • Before he flew off, Hawkins dropped two gifts: a candy bar with a bite taken out of it and a twenty-count packet of cigarettes with one missing.†   (source)
  • Dennis Nedry was sitting at a terminal in the far corner of the room, eating a candy bar and typing.†   (source)
  • At the door I held on to a cell bar like it was the long bone in Rosaleen's arm.†   (source)
  • The boy noticed that the owner of the bar stood nearby, listening attentively to their conversation.†   (source)
  • Even that, just a candy bar.†   (source)
  • Mr. Hoo slammed the reservations book shut, pressed a hand against the pain in his ample stomach, unwrapped a chocolate bar, and devoured it quickly before acid etched another ulcer.†   (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)
  • Then I stepped into the shower, holding on to the grip bar Myra's bullied me into, careful not to drop the soap: I'm apprehensive of slipping.†   (source)
  • He remembered the taste of the chocolate bar he had stolen there, how it had melted in his back pocket while he fed the dogs butter squeezed through his fingers.†   (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)
  • There are a bunch of pizza toppings on the breakfast bar—not just pepperoni and sausage and mushroom and pepper, but also artichoke hearts and greasy kalamata olives and fresh mozzarella and whole cloves of garlic.†   (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)
  • In the display formation closest to the base of the pyramid, a progress bar made of numerous green flags slowly advanced, indicating the percentage of the self-test that had been completed.†   (source)
  • When I plugged the power bar into the generator, several of the lights we'd set up around the room blinked to life, and the TV clicked on.†   (source)
  • So when he finally bid Mr. Webster goodnight (with a package of American cigarettes for Anna in one pocket and a chocolate bar for Sofia in the other), the Count headed homeward in an elevated frame of mind.†   (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 as for what you're implying, how could I waste money when I can't even set foot in 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)
  • "Snack bar," I said wistfully.†   (source)
  • He picked up his washcloth and a bar of soap and began to clean the blood coming from his nose and mouth.†   (source)
  • I shove my foot onto the place where two bars cross and push myself up, grabbing another bar in the process.†   (source)
  • Pi Patel: "Do you have another chocolate bar?"†   (source)
  • Years earlier, he had been drawn into a bar fight that resulted in a misdemeanor conviction and a night in jail.†   (source)
  • Four passengers, two men, two women, held only by a safety bar, were grabbing frantically at anything they could.†   (source)
  • We ate our Mars bar halves in silence, watching as the group of miserable-looking runners drew closer.†   (source)
  • As the disk sank into the soft surface, she pinched the hole closed, firmly embedding the device in the bar.†   (source)
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