"It's almost as if we stripped it all bare to get back even to youth academy football, " Curtis said.

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It was so bad we left the bare overhead bulb on all night to encourage the cockroaches to stay in the walls.

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It is the bare minimum of your job description, after all.

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It is a bare knuckle affair full of palter and equivocation from all parties.

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Most people would rather not scrape by on a nutritional bare minimum, especially if cancer or a car accident could come and steal it all away in an instant.

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This portrait of the novelist, literary adventurer, legendary talker, and precocious burnout Harold (Doc) Humes, directed by his daughter Immy, is a labor of love, years in the making, rendered all the more poignant by the troubled family relations it lays bare.

NEWYORKER: Doc

And the report it does carry avoids all speculation as to the cause of the incident, simply giving the bare facts as to the submarine's details and what the Ministry has so far reported.

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