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  • adjective superlative form of bare: most bare.

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Examples

  • Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and whitewashed walls and the green trees, and flowery meads, and living waters outside.

    Guarding the Home From Within. 2008

  • Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and whitewashed walls and the green trees, and flowery meads, and living waters outside.

    Archive 2008-08-01 2008

  • They may not have obvious political leanings at times, but their sensationalism and news as entertainment can only be called the barest, most emanciated of neutralities.

    Lin Huai-min on Taiwan's papers, and their business strategies Sun Bin 2006

  • Some require longer cooking and come require only the barest heat through.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Laura 2009

  • The act of actually putting words on the page is only the barest tip of the pencil.

    Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » The Deceptive Art of Balance 2009

  • It has happened in spades on the Baja and Yucatan peninsulas where foreigners, mostly Americans, have bragged publicly about acquiring beach front properties in places like Tulum and Ensenada for what they considered chump change forcing the locals into federal housing or dismal swamps or the barest of hillside ghettos while inducing a backbreaking increase in their cost of living.

    Safety in lakeside 2009

  • I'm weary of hearing e-books are too expensive, that their value should be based on no more than the barest bones.

    Randy Susan Meyers: The (Low) Cost of Reading Randy Susan Meyers 2011

  • Then reduce the heat to the barest simmer, stirring the chicken occasionally.

    Grilled Javanese Chicken Laura 2009

  • Politifact goes on to say, "Technically, the ads are correct about Hurt's contributions from uranium interests, but by the barest of margins."

    Hurt files lawsuit over uranium ad, but Politifact says the ad is true 2010

  • I wrote the story completely from the seat of my pants, having only the barest idea of the direction it would take.

    Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » NaNo? or NaNot? 2009

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