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Recent Examples of bloodletting
But more recently — around Hollywood if not across the broader culture — Blumhouse has become synonymous with a different kind of cinematic bloodletting.
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Chris Lee, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2025
Much bloodletting, and a whole lotta rockin', ensues.
—Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Oct. 2025
The bloodletting has seemingly only just begun in a tense postscript of the first game between the countries since a gun massacre of tourists in April in Kashmir pushed nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan to the brink of war.
—Tristan Lavalette, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
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.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 13 Aug. 2025
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Chris Lee, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2025
Much bloodletting, and a whole lotta rockin', ensues.
—Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Oct. 2025
The bloodletting has seemingly only just begun in a tense postscript of the first game between the countries since a gun massacre of tourists in April in Kashmir pushed nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan to the brink of war.
—Tristan Lavalette, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
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.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 13 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloodletting
Noun
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But two years of military activity have failed to stem the bloodshed.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
11 Jan. 2026
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And there's been a lot of bloodshed.—
NBC news,
NBC news,
11 Jan. 2026
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The number of killings investigated last year fell to 67, with 57 of those categorized as murders — excluding cases such as justifiable homicides — a total not seen since 1967, according to data compiled by this news organization.—
Shomik Mukherjee,
Mercury News,
8 Jan. 2026
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Jackson, who famously won an acquittal in the murder trial of Karen Read and represented disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein, did not explain his decision to withdraw from the case.—
Matt Gutman,
CBS News,
8 Jan. 2026
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All the noisy cheer-leading from afar while slaughter reigns on the ground and nothing is done to stop it,,, seems a lot more like irresponsible armchairing than the op-ed.—
Melik Kaylan,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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Authorities invoked the phrase in 2020 during the Black Lives Matter demonstrations and in 2024 during university campus protests against Israel’s slaughter in Gaza.—
Harmeet Kaur,
CNN Money,
14 Jan. 2026
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The kitchen knife used in to carry out the carnage was also there, according to authorities.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
Mercury News,
22 Jan. 2026
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Only now, more than a week later, have details corroborating the scope of the carnage begun to emerge.—
Cora Engelbrecht,
New Yorker,
22 Jan. 2026
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Several hundred people gathered in downtown Dallas on Thursday evening to protest the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis by an ICE agent the day before.—
Emily Holshouser,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 Jan. 2026
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The action was in response to the killing of Renee Nicole Good, 37, who was shot while in her vehicle by an ICE agent conducting arrests in a residential area of Minneapolis.—
Sharon Bernstein,
Sacbee.com,
9 Jan. 2026
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Juries are often reluctant to convict law enforcement officers for inaction, as seen after the 2018 school massacre in Parkland, Fla.—
Valerie Gonzalez,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Jan. 2026
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Juries are often reluctant to convict law enforcement officers for inaction, as seen after the Parkland, Florida, school massacre in 2018.—
Valerie Gonzalez,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Jan. 2026
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On cross-examination, Shaps noted Hall was briefly arrested in connection for the slaying.—
Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Jan. 2026
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The slaying struck fear in the quiet community of Adelanto, where rumors spread about a serial killer on the loose in Victor Valley, according to the Daily Press.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Jan. 2026
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Rewarding Russian butchery would be disastrous to America’s interests.—
Andrew Stanton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Dec. 2025
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Ho is the owner of the Royce, a downtown Detroit wine bar; Marrow, the award-winning restaurant and neighborhood butchery shop in Detroit’s West Village, and Marrow Birmingham on Hamilton Row in Birmingham.—
Natalie Davies,
Freep.com,
14 Nov. 2025
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“Bloodletting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloodletting. Accessed 25 Jan. 2026.
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