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This barbarism is why countries and territories continue to ban them, stores are discontinuing their sales and various entities no longer use them.
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Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 14 July 2024
Some of our most celebrated modern shows are full of barbarism and continual bloodshed.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 17 June 2024
Convict leasing, also called peonage, juxtaposed the infrastructure of the Old English debtor’s prison with the barbarism of chattel slavery to bolster American capitalism.
—Phillip Vance Smith, JSTOR Daily, 1 Feb. 2024
Holland reminds us that the machinery of mass barbarism depends on such individual acts of complicity and betrayal.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 22 June 2024
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Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 14 July 2024
Some of our most celebrated modern shows are full of barbarism and continual bloodshed.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 17 June 2024
Convict leasing, also called peonage, juxtaposed the infrastructure of the Old English debtor’s prison with the barbarism of chattel slavery to bolster American capitalism.
—Phillip Vance Smith, JSTOR Daily, 1 Feb. 2024
Holland reminds us that the machinery of mass barbarism depends on such individual acts of complicity and betrayal.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 22 June 2024
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“Barbarism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/barbarism. Accessed 17 Sep. 2024.
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