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Recent Examples of barbarism
For instance, his description of Sultan Allauddin Khilji’s brutality toward his enemies is devoid of accusations of barbarism or excessive hand-wringing.
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Radha Vatsal
june 20, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
The White Guard hinges on the contrast between the cozy bourgeois home of the Turbin family, based on Bulgakov’s family home on Kyiv’s most picturesque street, and the barbarism unfolding outside.
—Uilleam Blacker, The Atlantic, 4 June 2025
As neo-colonial dynamics among the expatriate community unravel, this fragile bond becomes his only refuge from an impending collapse into solitude or barbarism.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 22 May 2025
The journalists traveled to Haiti to show the grim extent of the devastation and barbarism wrought by the gang warfare that has sown chaos in the country’s capital, Port-au-Prince.
—Katie Robertson, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
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Radha Vatsal
june 20, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
The White Guard hinges on the contrast between the cozy bourgeois home of the Turbin family, based on Bulgakov’s family home on Kyiv’s most picturesque street, and the barbarism unfolding outside.
—Uilleam Blacker, The Atlantic, 4 June 2025
As neo-colonial dynamics among the expatriate community unravel, this fragile bond becomes his only refuge from an impending collapse into solitude or barbarism.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 22 May 2025
The journalists traveled to Haiti to show the grim extent of the devastation and barbarism wrought by the gang warfare that has sown chaos in the country’s capital, Port-au-Prince.
—Katie Robertson, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for barbarism
Noun
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By the time that my mother and Alina’s were born, female illiteracy, the norm in imperial Russia, had been all but eliminated.—
Julia Ioffe,
New Yorker,
19 Oct. 2025
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In the immediate aftermath of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s murder, one of the most vexing things occluding the facts of what happened was a general illiteracy regarding the online culture that had engulfed the alleged killer — its memes and codes and ideologies.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Sep. 2025
Noun
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This is not, Vance’s studied ignorance notwithstanding, a normal way of doing business.—
Ruth Marcus,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
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The holiday also commemorates the triumph of knowledge over ignorance centuries ago.—
Angela Chitkara,
Fortune,
18 Oct. 2025
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