Barros

American  

[bahr-roosh] / ˈbɑr rʊʃ /

noun

1. João de the Portuguese Livy, 1496–1570, Portuguese historian.

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Barros British  

/ ˈbɑːrruʃ /

noun

1. João de (ʒu[~ə]u ˈdəː). 1496–1570, Portuguese historian: noted for his history of the Portuguese in the East Indies, Décadas da Ásia (1552–1615)

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Example Sentences

Tiana Sumanasekera followed it with a 9.750 before Nola Matthews, Sydney Barros and Chiles each scored a 9.900.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2026

Alipio and Barros scored a 9.9, while Chiles scored a 9.875, Rosen a 9.850, Jordis Eichman a 9.825 and Sumanasekera a 9.775.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2026

Chiles notched her 10; Alipio scored a 9.950; Barros, Rosen and Sumanasekera earned 9.900 marks; and Sullivan scored a 9.875.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2026

“Based on current visibility, we expect sequential growth every quarter this year, leading to what we expect to be a strong growth year for Ichor,” CEO Phil Barros said on a conference call.

From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026

João de Barros was able to claim in 1555 that Hercules’ pillars, ‘which he set up at our very doorstep, as it were,...have been effaced from human memory and thrust into silence and oblivion’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton