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The latest sequel introduces newcomers like Madelyn Cline and Chase Sui Wonders, but brings back franchise veterans Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt for more on-screen bloodletting.
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Brent Lang, Variety, 18 July 2025
Mass migration into the two new nations set off ghastly religious bloodletting, leaving up to two million people dead.
—Atul Loke, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
Indeed, if anyone thought the entertainment business’ bloodletting was over after last year’s series of layoffs, Walt Disney Co. and Warner Bros. Discovery disabused them of that notion in recent days.
—Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2025
In the midst of such bloodletting, the launch of such a project may seem surprising at best and a waste of resources at worst.
—Kendall Bianchi, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2017
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Brent Lang, Variety, 18 July 2025
Mass migration into the two new nations set off ghastly religious bloodletting, leaving up to two million people dead.
—Atul Loke, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
Indeed, if anyone thought the entertainment business’ bloodletting was over after last year’s series of layoffs, Walt Disney Co. and Warner Bros. Discovery disabused them of that notion in recent days.
—Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2025
In the midst of such bloodletting, the launch of such a project may seem surprising at best and a waste of resources at worst.
—Kendall Bianchi, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2017
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloodletting
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The rabbinic sages counseled patience, seeking a diplomatic accommodation that would avert mass bloodshed.—
Yair Rosenberg,
The Atlantic,
7 Aug. 2025
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While there's no bloodshed, some of the monsters in the film look pretty intense and clearly intend to harm the kids.—
DeVonne Goode,
Parents,
6 Aug. 2025
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More than a month after the parents’ deaths, deputies issued a warrant for Leman’s arrest on murder charges.—
Mike Stunson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
18 Aug. 2025
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Jamison Fisher, 50, has been indicted on three counts of first-degree murder and one count of concealment of a homicidal death in the murder of Trudy Appleby, authorities in Moline, Illinois, said during a news conference on Thursday, Aug. 14.—
Michelle Del Rey,
USA Today,
18 Aug. 2025
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All Robert has to do is slaughter a few dozen members of the Camorra who are terrorizing the place.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
15 Aug. 2025
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Whether farmers use the high prices as an opportunity to expand their herds or instead seek to profit from selling off cows for slaughter will determine whether the U.S. cattle herd continues to shrink, Nelson wrote.—
Reia Li,
AZCentral.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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Whether the Ferriers are on foot or in a car, the director choreographs spectacular carnage around them, a visceral cocktail of alien death rays turning their victims to dust, or city infrastructure being demolished with extreme prejudice.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
29 June 2025
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Championship Sunday at Oakmont Country Club was pure carnage but ended with a magical putt from J.J. Spaun.—
Savannah Leigh Richardson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 June 2025
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The violence of the narcos — the killings and kidnappings and disappearances — was remote from Miguel, as were the men celebrated in the narco corridos.—
Jesse Hyde,
Rolling Stone,
7 Aug. 2025
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Flores said police collected cellphone tower data that showed Taylor and Rhodes' phones were in the same vicinity at the time of the killing.—
Chris Ramirez,
jsonline.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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Australia has designated Hamas a terrorist entity and Albanese repeated Monday his government's calls for the group to return Israeli hostages held since the Oct. 7, 2023 massacre.—
Bradford Betz,
FOXNews.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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Some Israelis on the left are more aware of this now, but the open wound of both the massacre itself and those twenty live hostages and thirty bodies kept remain obsessions.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
10 Aug. 2025
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Adams, 39, initially was charged with first-degree intentional homicide in connection with the Dec. 6, 2021, slaying of Jose Stanton, a 28-year-old security guard at the Days Inn hotel at North Sixth and West Vine streets.—
Chris Ramirez,
jsonline.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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Gargiulo was extradited to Illinois in September 2024, to stand trial on charges of murder in the Glenview teen’s slaying.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Aug. 2025
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Of the remains, 222 had color changes that are associated with cremation, while 69 of those bones had signs of butchery likely performed after death.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
7 Aug. 2025
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The skulls bore butchery marks, hinting at a feast; however, the real mystery was their origin.—
Pranjal Malewar,
New Atlas,
29 July 2025
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“Bloodletting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloodletting. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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