Examples of barbaric in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The dehumanization of Palestinians as barbaric, primitive, or terroristic, for example, perpetuates racist tropes about not just Arabs but also about Muslims more broadly. Abdallah Fayyad, Vox, 5 June 2024 For the 26-year-old Australian nurse, the barbaric beating and gang rape on the night of Feb. 2, 1986, that left her dead in a rural field with her throat slashed was the stuff of nightmares. Kc Baker, People.com, 14 Oct. 2024 Dungeons & Dragons taught fantasy fans to understand orcs as a fusion of racist tropes, combining a barbaric other and a vaguely native people of tribes and clans. Caitlin Penzeymoog, Vox, 7 Oct. 2024 Those who were killed yesterday (Wednesday) in the IDF strike were nine terrorists with blood on their hands, and some of them participated in the barbaric massacre on October 7. Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 16 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for barbaric 

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“Barbaric.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/barbaric. Accessed 2 Nov. 2024.

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