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Recent Examples of bloodletting
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
But the guns kept coming — and the bloodletting and mayhem grew.
—Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 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
Secor movingly and vividly covers this grotesque bloodletting.
—Ervand Abrahamian, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2016
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Brent Lang, Variety, 18 July 2025
But the guns kept coming — and the bloodletting and mayhem grew.
—Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 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
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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Several videos posted online show the event, including the moment the shot was fired and the subsequent bloodshed.—
Mandy Taheri
Joshua Rhett Miller,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
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The Pentagon may have been called the Department of Defense, but the reality was one of endless campaigns and bloodshed.—
Tom Debley,
Mercury News,
11 Sep. 2025
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Three people were killed in a murder-suicide shooting near a middle school in Illinois on Tuesday.—
Jordan King,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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McDonald, portrayed as the main attacker, was convicted of murder, but later released because of health issues.—
Tony Saavedra,
Oc Register,
17 Sep. 2025
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Warned by ornithologists that killing an insectivorous bird that also ate grain seeds would lead to a surge in locusts and caterpillars, Mao dismissed such arguments and urged mass slaughter.—
Scott Montgomery,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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The slaughter of the innocents that follows the birth of Jesus in the Book of Matthew is depicted by limp infants that Gaudí modelled on casts of actual stillborn babies.—
D. T. Max,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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Basically the carnage is all nonstop from this point on, a festival of killing in all kinds of nifty ways.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
8 Sep. 2025
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Johnson’s dishonesty doesn’t even take into consideration the carnage from the homicides of yesteryear in the Windy City.—
Christopher Tremoglie,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025
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His killing could become not just a tragedy but a catalyst—an event that radicalizes ever more Americans, less an aberration than a feature of our increasingly perilous national politics.—
Eric Cortellessa,
Time,
11 Sep. 2025
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The Wyandotte County District Attorney’s Office charged Shawn Harris, 38, with capital murder and criminal possession of a weapon in the killing.—
Laura Bauer,
Kansas City Star,
10 Sep. 2025
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The shooting at Evergreen High is at least the seventh school shooting in Colorado since the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School that killed 13 students and one teacher.—
Katie Langford,
Boston Herald,
13 Sep. 2025
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Sheriff Tony later condemned his deputies’ failures, including their inaction on removing Nathan’s firearms or seeking a court order under Florida’s red flag law, passed after the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High massacre.—
Milena Malaver,
Miami Herald,
12 Sep. 2025
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Panthers fire employee over social media post The Carolina Panthers' communications coordinator was reportedly fired for Instagram posts apparently referencing Kirk's slaying.—
Julia Gomez,
USA Today,
13 Sep. 2025
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Two other people were detained by authorities in connection with Kirk's slaying on Wednesday but were later released without being charged.—
Becca Longmire,
PEOPLE,
12 Sep. 2025
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The event will be hosted by Caitlin and Tom Moriarty at Moriarty Meats, who will be providing regional specialty sandwiches—boeuf on weck—to fuel us through an evening of live butchery demonstration, an author Q&A, and book signing.—
Chloe Sorvino,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 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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“Bloodletting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloodletting. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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