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Those include just how much leverage the US retains to stanch bloodletting and coax the parties back from the brink.
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In each of two big waves of bloodletting, in the early 1990s and again from 2007 to 2013, perhaps 10,000 people were murdered in the city.
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His reputation as a pitiless ax man hardened, but Ghosn contended that the purpose of the bloodletting was to allow vitality and growth.
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When will the bloodletting of great sports journalists end?
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There's also the occasionally uncomfortable matter of a little girl freely engaged in the bloodletting, and the sheer build-up of collateral damage as the movie's body count mounts.
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If the Times report is any indication, a massive policy shift is badly needed, and long before the criminal investigation and political bloodletting has finished.
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Despite the bloodletting among finance chiefs during the oil downturn, those who stuck it out in the industry are likely to be in demand for years, said Rob Thummel, portfolio manager at Tortoise Capital Advisors.
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II This #Jets roster bloodletting (Harris and Decker) is all about the owner smitten with notion of landing the No.
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First Known Use of bloodletting
13th century
BLOODLETTING Defined for English Language Learners
bloodletting
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noun
Definition of bloodletting for English Language Learners
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: the former practice of taking some blood out of the bodies of sick people to heal them
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: the practice of causing someone to bleed as part of a religious ceremony
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: the killing of people
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