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Recent Examples of barbarism
That sort of attitude commits you to barbarism: human life has no value.
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Rafael Perez, Oc Register, 12 Nov. 2025
At Nuremberg, the courtroom-turned-cinema screened the visceral barbarism of the concentration camps to a horrified world watching the proceedings.
—NPR, 11 Nov. 2025
The storied choice between socialism and barbarism was made exquisitely clear a good many years ago in the United States, and both major parties chose barbarism.
—Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
The horror and the barbarism here is hard to even comprehend.
—Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
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Rafael Perez, Oc Register, 12 Nov. 2025
At Nuremberg, the courtroom-turned-cinema screened the visceral barbarism of the concentration camps to a horrified world watching the proceedings.
—NPR, 11 Nov. 2025
The storied choice between socialism and barbarism was made exquisitely clear a good many years ago in the United States, and both major parties chose barbarism.
—Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
The horror and the barbarism here is hard to even comprehend.
—Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for barbarism
Noun
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Despite such official philistinism, Proust had already left an enduring mark on Irish letters and would remain a source of literary inspiration for the nation’s writers into the twenty-first century.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The correlation between illiteracy and incarceration has been known for a long time.—
David Owen,
New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2025
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Hirsch believes that the consequences of illiteracy are also reflected within the prison system.—
Nia Bowers,
USA Today,
13 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Inversely, having been friends with Epstein before his conviction is no proof of ignorance.—
Gilad Edelman,
The Atlantic,
7 Feb. 2026
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All the knowledge—or ignorance—that a viewer brings to a movie, whatever knowledge a viewer gains about the making and the makers, is an inextricable part of the viewing experience.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
6 Feb. 2026
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“Barbarism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/barbarism. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.
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