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Interviewed before Thursday night’s bloodletting, analysts named several wild cards in how the protests—and the regime’s response—might evolve.
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Roxana Saberi, Time, 9 Jan. 2026
That bloodletting resulted in legislation that banned ownership of most automatic and semiautomatic rifles and drastically reduced the number of mass killings in Australia.
—Matt Bradley, NBC news, 16 Dec. 2025
Another way of contextualizing the scale of the bloodletting is the war in Gaza, the bloodiest round of fighting between Israel and Palestinian terrorists since the latter’s war of independence in 1948.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 5 Dec. 2025
This month’s stock market losses won’t be the last of the bloodletting, according to Raymond James.
—Sarah Min, CNBC, 25 Nov. 2025
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Roxana Saberi, Time, 9 Jan. 2026
That bloodletting resulted in legislation that banned ownership of most automatic and semiautomatic rifles and drastically reduced the number of mass killings in Australia.
—Matt Bradley, NBC news, 16 Dec. 2025
Another way of contextualizing the scale of the bloodletting is the war in Gaza, the bloodiest round of fighting between Israel and Palestinian terrorists since the latter’s war of independence in 1948.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 5 Dec. 2025
This month’s stock market losses won’t be the last of the bloodletting, according to Raymond James.
—Sarah Min, CNBC, 25 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloodletting
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The feed from @CForce3000 carried images of the bloodshed.—
Connor Sheets,
Los Angeles Times,
3 May 2026
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There’s no way this will end in bloodshed, tears, and rage, right?—
Sophie Brookover,
Vulture,
1 May 2026
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Jaclyn Skuce, 43, of Madison, was convicted of capital murder after hiring a man to kill the child’s father in order to prevent him from gaining custody or further visitation, the Morgan County District Attorney’s Office said.—
Michael Sinkewicz,
FOXNews.com,
10 May 2026
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No remains were uncovered, but a month later, both Flores men were arrested and charged in connection with Smart’s murder.—
Richard Winton,
Los Angeles Times,
10 May 2026
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Back then, the sector focused on drugs that helped cattle and swine survive long enough to make slaughter weight.—
Ross Andersen,
The Atlantic,
2 May 2026
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But Serkis prefers his Trojan horse without the slaughter.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 2026
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After a bomb levels an apartment complex where Paul lives with his fam, Paul’s daughter Poe (Billie Boullet), an eyewitness to that carnage, becomes the target of vicious drug cartels who want her outta the picture.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
7 May 2026
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Judges praised the thoroughness and compassion of the newspaper’s reporting on a scene of carnage in its hometown.—
Jennifer Peltz,
Twin Cities,
4 May 2026
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The slain man’s parents own and live in a building about a mile-and-a-half away from where the killing happened.—
Sheetal Banchariya,
New York Daily News,
4 May 2026
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Police said at the time of the killing that the people who stole the Acura mistakenly assumed it was abandoned and drove it to the encampment.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
4 May 2026
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In Australia, a wide-ranging inquiry commission examining antisemitism after a massacre at a Hanukkah celebration heard this week from Jews who said escalating hatred has left them fearful and vulnerable.—
David Crary,
Fortune,
6 May 2026
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The massacre was inspired by Islamic State group, Australian police said.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
5 May 2026
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Cops are asking the public’s help finding Maykoll Lanuza Morales, wanted for the slaying inside a Richmond Hill apartment building last month.—
Sheetal Banchariya,
New York Daily News,
4 May 2026
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Momeni claimed Lee attacked him first Less than two weeks later, Momeni was arrested and charged with murder with a special allegation enhancement for using a knife in the slaying, ABC 7 San Francisco reported.—
Jessica Sager,
PEOPLE,
3 May 2026
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Amid rising grocery costs, American shoppers are searching for inventive ways to save, like buying meat in bulk and taking on the butchery at home.—
Kelly McCarthy,
ABC News,
6 Mar. 2026
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Vespaio was one of the first restaurants in the region to engage in whole animal butchery and even kept its own herb garden on the property.—
Matthew Odam,
Austin American Statesman,
27 Feb. 2026
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“Bloodletting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloodletting. Accessed 12 May. 2026.
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