barbarism

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Recent Examples of barbarism 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 Wars, miseries, climate change, misogyny — our barbarism’s demons give us no respite. Rachel Handler, Vulture, 13 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 See All Example Sentences for barbarism
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Noun
  • 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
  • But digital illiteracy still constrains African banks’ ability to serve their customers, according to nearly 8 in 10 respondents, made up of 203 senior banking executives from 40 African countries.
    Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • My only advice is to NOT believe her if MIL tries to claim ignorance of the dangers that have informed your decision about phones.
    Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
  • But if the joke and the ignorance are equally yoked, people will laugh.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2025

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“Barbarism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/barbarism. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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