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Recent Examples of barbarism
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.
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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
The cruelty and barbarism of this action shockingly overturns the purpose of USAID, which is to gain international support and influence for the U.S. in developing countries.
—Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2025
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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
The cruelty and barbarism of this action shockingly overturns the purpose of USAID, which is to gain international support and influence for the U.S. in developing countries.
—Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for barbarism
Noun
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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
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Intersectionality proposes that societal problems such as crime and illiteracy correct themselves if opportunities and environments are evened out via public policy.—
John Scott Lewinski,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Libraries douse the destructive flames of ignorance.—
Ryan Byrnes,
Literary Hub,
7 Oct. 2025
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An annual spectacle to refute our constant erasure, whether intended or committed in ignorance, from the zeitgeist.—
Rodney Carmichael,
NPR,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Barbarism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/barbarism. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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