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Beloved is almost barren of the hip-hop flourishes that peppered his earlier work, and instead leans all the way into the orchestral R&B of another time, lush with searing strings and the crash of real hi-hats.
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Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 11 July 2025
Professor Thackeray, the same anthropologist who performed the pipe analysis, points to Shakespeare’s Sonnet 76, which talks in part about the act of writing (emphasis added):
Why is my verse so barren of new pride,
So far from variation or quick change?
—Sam Kelly
july 8, Literary Hub, 8 July 2025
Because the area is only reachable by horseback and largely barren of security forces, the terrorists’ task was easier.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 24 Apr. 2025
Now in winter, the pods are open and barren of seeds and silk.
—Sheryl De Vore, Chicago Tribune, 3 Mar. 2025
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Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 11 July 2025
Professor Thackeray, the same anthropologist who performed the pipe analysis, points to Shakespeare’s Sonnet 76, which talks in part about the act of writing (emphasis added):
Why is my verse so barren of new pride,
So far from variation or quick change?
—Sam Kelly
july 8, Literary Hub, 8 July 2025
Because the area is only reachable by horseback and largely barren of security forces, the terrorists’ task was easier.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 24 Apr. 2025
Now in winter, the pods are open and barren of seeds and silk.
—Sheryl De Vore, Chicago Tribune, 3 Mar. 2025
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“Barren of.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/barren%20of. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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