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Recent Examples of bloodletting
Interestingly, this shifting debate over how cognition influences culture coincides with a spate of research bridging psychology and anthropology, which explores why certain behaviors – such as singing lullabies, curative bloodletting and storytelling – recur across human cultures.
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Eli Elster, The Conversation, 19 Mar. 2025
For those of us who survived this corporate bloodletting, we were offered bland gestures of perseverance and then told to get back to work the next day.
—Steve Denning, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
Nationwide, research grants doled out by the National Institutes of Health were hit with an ax this month, but the bloodletting is very much a local problem.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2025
Unlike the original 1985 Vampire Hunter D — a low-budget, direct-to-video effort — 2000’s Bloodlust is opulently produced, a postapocalyptic action epic stuffed with black leather, red lips, and supernatural bloodletting.
—Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 21 Aug. 2024
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Eli Elster, The Conversation, 19 Mar. 2025
For those of us who survived this corporate bloodletting, we were offered bland gestures of perseverance and then told to get back to work the next day.
—Steve Denning, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
Nationwide, research grants doled out by the National Institutes of Health were hit with an ax this month, but the bloodletting is very much a local problem.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2025
Unlike the original 1985 Vampire Hunter D — a low-budget, direct-to-video effort — 2000’s Bloodlust is opulently produced, a postapocalyptic action epic stuffed with black leather, red lips, and supernatural bloodletting.
—Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 21 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloodletting
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The flag is split horizontally with the red arched into the blue, signifying the bloodshed of the enslaved and depicting a new horizon.—
Joseph Hernandez,
Kansas City Star,
18 June 2025
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In a joint statement, Iran’s Nobel laureates Narges Mohammadi and Shirin Ebadi, filmmakers Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof, and civil society voices urged world leaders to halt uranium enrichment and end the bloodshed of innocents in Iran and Israel.—
Nazanin Boniadi,
Time,
17 June 2025
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Court officials reviewed YouTube footage and charged Troconis with criminal contempt of court, a misdemeanor, on the same day she was convicted of helping her boyfriend execute and cover up his wife’s murder.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
19 June 2025
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First-degree murder in Arkansas can be punished by 10 to 40 years or life.—
Ron Wood,
Arkansas Online,
19 June 2025
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Third, in the face of such facts, a deportation of Afghans back to Afghanistan would be nothing short of a slaughter.—
David Peduto,
Baltimore Sun,
11 June 2025
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His cases there included the successful prosecution — in a 25-month trial — of a Croatian general who ordered the slaughter of Muslim noncombatants.—
Dan Sullivan,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 May 2025
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Yet for those that survived the carnage, this created opportunities.—
Tim Vernimmen,
JSTOR Daily,
19 June 2025
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But the main disagreement with them is not in their correct dismissal of deregulation as the cause of the carnage, but in their ongoing support of government intervention, including bailouts.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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In February, Mexico sent 29 cartel figures — including drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, who was behind the killing of a U.S. DEA agent in 1985 — to the U.S. for prosecution.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
20 June 2025
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In 2022, Sima took part in anti-government protests sparked by the killing of Mahsa Amini, 22, in police custody.—
Sara Monetta,
NBC news,
19 June 2025
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Nearly 600 days after he was abducted by Hamas during the October 7 massacre, Edan Alexander returned home to New Jersey on Thursday to a deeply emotional homecoming.—
Efrat Lachter , Nate Foy , Julia Johnson,
FOXNews.com,
19 June 2025
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The church's pastor, Clementa Pinckney, was one of the people killed in the massacre.—
Mark Strassmann,
CBS News,
17 June 2025
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Prosecutors allege Los Cabos is also responsible for the 2018 slayings of three San Diego-area teenagers in Tijuana and the killings of at least three police officers.—
City News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 June 2025
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Jim Walker made these comments on Tuesday, the day after Fort Worth police arrested a 77-year-old man who is facing a capital murder charge in the slaying of his sister, Carla Walker.—
Mitch Mitchell,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
11 June 2025
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With rare and heritage breed livestock born, raised, finished, and butchered on the estate, the butchery gives The Newt even greater control over the quality, provenance, and traceability of its meat.—
Angelina Villa-Clarke,
Forbes.com,
17 June 2025
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That’s what cooks do at Jeju, a Portland, Oregon, restaurant that specializes in whole-animal butchery.—
Emily Saladino,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
12 May 2025
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“Bloodletting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloodletting. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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