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Recent Examples of barbarism
The space between simple awareness and true understanding is narrow but chasmic — small enough to walk around but deep enough to contain so much of the worst barbarism this world has ever produced.
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David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 27 Jan. 2026
Similar analyses, whether from Simone Weil or Aimé Césaire, ought to have discouraged a relaxed conscience among the victors of the Second World War and opened up a broader inquiry into the barbarism inherent in political and economic modernity.
—Victor J. Blue, Harpers Magazine, 23 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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David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 27 Jan. 2026
Similar analyses, whether from Simone Weil or Aimé Césaire, ought to have discouraged a relaxed conscience among the victors of the Second World War and opened up a broader inquiry into the barbarism inherent in political and economic modernity.
—Victor J. Blue, Harpers Magazine, 23 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
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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
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Their parents sign their names with trembling hands that carry the invisible weight of illiteracy.—
Joyeeta Banerjee,
NPR,
1 Mar. 2026
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The Shopper was created in 1970 by Reuben Harpole, Mildred Harpole and Belden Paulson, not just to combat illiteracy but to provide supporting funds to the Harambee Community School – an institution at 110 W. Burleigh St. that was grappling with disinvestment at the time.—
Everett Eaton,
jsonline.com,
23 Feb. 2026
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Don’t let the fact that Italy’s unexpected heroics allowed Team USA to back into a quarterfinal spot erase the embarrassment of an all-too-telling admission of ignorance by DeRosa.—
Hannah Keyser,
CNN Money,
12 Mar. 2026
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Austen’s ideal romantic relationships are never founded on ignorance or lies.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Mar. 2026
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“Barbarism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/barbarism. Accessed 20 Mar. 2026.
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