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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
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
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
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
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
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
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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In the meantime, the war rumbles on and diplomatic efforts to end the bloodshed and the unfolding famine continue.—
Chloe Mayer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Sep. 2025
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The two-year war in Ethiopia's Tigray region left hundreds of thousands of people dead, more than one million still displaced and caused more than $20 billion in damage, until the agreement in November 2022 ended the bloodshed.—
Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
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The original wording suggesting that Soliman faced murder charges in Iraq had been included in the government’s successful argument for keeping him in custody.—
Hannah Allam,
ProPublica,
10 Sep. 2025
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An argument over a wristwatch led to the fatal shooting of a 21-year-old Dallas mother at Malibu Jack’s amusement park in North Richland Hills, according to new details of the murder investigation released on Tuesday.—
Shambhavi Rimal,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
10 Sep. 2025
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Most effective however is Vanderbilt’s decision to stop the action and simply run the devastating real black-and-white film footage of the slaughter of Jews in the concentration camps.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
7 Sep. 2025
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Hamas had brutally penetrated our southern border, embarking on the slaughter of civilians.—
Ron Scherf,
Time,
5 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 genocide allegation also rests on claims that Israel intentionally targeted civilians, but the study acknowledges civilian deaths while finding no evidence of a systematic policy of massacre.—
Amelie Botbol,
FOXNews.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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The riots in the summer of 2024 had followed a stabbing massacre at a children's dance group in Southport by the teenage son of Rwandan immigrants.—
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Sep. 2025
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Dexter rushes Harrison out of the Prater compound and proceeds to prep Prater for his slaying.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
4 Sep. 2025
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One of them recorded the slaying on video, according to the local sheriff – a brutal and confusing fact for Lindsey.—
Michael Ruiz,
FOXNews.com,
28 Aug. 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,
3 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 11 Sep. 2025.
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