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Recent Examples of bloodletting
Ultimately the inevitable showdown between Hutch and the Queen Bee that Stone embodies also works, not just for the inventive bloodletting, but also the LOL lunacy of it all.
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Pete Hammond, Deadline, 13 Aug. 2025
Widespread violence between the Druze minority and Bedouin tribes in southern Syria erupted on July 13 and has left hundreds dead in the latest explosion of sectarian bloodletting since the authoritarian rule of Bashar al-Assad was toppled by a coalition of Islamist rebels.
—Sarah Dewberry, CNN Money, 22 July 2025
But the guns kept coming — and the bloodletting and mayhem grew.
—Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2025
Secor movingly and vividly covers this grotesque bloodletting.
—Ervand Abrahamian, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2016
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Pete Hammond, Deadline, 13 Aug. 2025
Widespread violence between the Druze minority and Bedouin tribes in southern Syria erupted on July 13 and has left hundreds dead in the latest explosion of sectarian bloodletting since the authoritarian rule of Bashar al-Assad was toppled by a coalition of Islamist rebels.
—Sarah Dewberry, CNN Money, 22 July 2025
But the guns kept coming — and the bloodletting and mayhem grew.
—Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2025
Secor movingly and vividly covers this grotesque bloodletting.
—Ervand Abrahamian, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2016
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloodletting
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Witch-burning, frightening folklore, and centuries of war and bloodshed have imparted an unsettling ambience in destinations like Edinburgh.—
Nicole Kliest,
Vogue,
18 Oct. 2025
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But after two years of bloodshed, boycotts and bitter division, the ceasefire offers at least one thing that has been in short supply — a moment to talk without bombs falling overhead.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
14 Oct. 2025
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The police department previously booked him into the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department High Desert Detention Center on a murder charge, which was dropped during his arraignment on Tuesday, according to ABC7.—
Ingrid Vasquez,
PEOPLE,
22 Oct. 2025
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Rephayah Oselmo is wanted by the state of New York in connection with murder in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon, according to a news release from the Marshals Service.—
NWA Democrat-Gazette,
Arkansas Online,
22 Oct. 2025
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Language purists like to remind anyone who will listen that decimation actually means the slaughter of one in ten people, and was the military punishment wielded by the Roman army against deserters and mutineers.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Oct. 2025
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Some will welcome it; there is certainly an argument that the attempts to imitate Guardiola’s style, playing from the back against high-class opponents with a plan to press them into mistakes, led to some coaches leading their teams like lambs to the slaughter.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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The brutal aftermath of what Ukraine said was a Russian strike on Kharkiv that hit a kindergarten was laid bare in a video shared by Ukrainian emergency services, with crying children seen being carried away from the carnage.—
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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In the wake of such carnage and with such intense hatred on both sides, how could the French people reconcile with each other?—
Time,
Time,
21 Oct. 2025
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The controversial killing, which involved a barrage of 50 bullets, led to further calls for police reform and accountability.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
22 Oct. 2025
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He had been arrested and charged with the killing of Rene Williams.—
Jenna Sundel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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Cell tower data placed his phone inside Israel near Kibbutz Kfar Aza, one of the sites where Hamas and its supporters carried out a brutal massacre.—
Greg Norman , Michael Dorgan,
FOXNews.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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Bondi established the task force in February to spearhead the DOJ’s investigations into the perpetrators of the massacre.—
Emily Hallas,
The Washington Examiner,
17 Oct. 2025
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Now, more than a year after the man’s death, Miami-Dade Sheriff’s detectives have arrested a woman in connection to his slaying.—
Milena Malaver,
Miami Herald,
14 Oct. 2025
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The slaying of the serpent was a mythological superspreader, mutating and proliferating across the Indo-European world and beyond.—
Manvir Singh,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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Sow is bringing the same energy seen in the halal BBQ world to halal butchery.—
Farhan Mustafa,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
23 Sep. 2025
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Neanderthals who lived in present-day Israel may have passed down local butchery techniques, and experiments indicated that late Pleistocene Neanderthals’ stable nitrogen-isotope ratios indicate not hypercarnivory but a diet rich in maggots.—
Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Bloodletting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloodletting. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.
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