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Recent Examples of bloodletting
This month’s stock market losses won’t be the last of the bloodletting, according to Raymond James.
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Sarah Min, CNBC, 25 Nov. 2025
But more recently — around Hollywood if not across the broader culture — Blumhouse has become synonymous with a different kind of cinematic bloodletting.
—Chris Lee, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2025
Much bloodletting, and a whole lotta rockin', ensues.
—Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Oct. 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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Sarah Min, CNBC, 25 Nov. 2025
But more recently — around Hollywood if not across the broader culture — Blumhouse has become synonymous with a different kind of cinematic bloodletting.
—Chris Lee, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2025
Much bloodletting, and a whole lotta rockin', ensues.
—Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Oct. 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
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Police said the bloodshed was gang motivated, despite Redding having no criminal record.—
Nicholas Williams,
New York Daily News,
15 Feb. 2026
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Negotiations divorced from accountability risk entrenching authoritarianism and teaching regimes that bloodshed is merely a prelude to diplomatic rehabilitation.—
Pegah Banihashemi,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Feb. 2026
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Colt Gray, now 16, has been indicted on 55 felony counts, including four counts of malice murder, according to court documents.—
Eric Levenson,
CNN Money,
16 Feb. 2026
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Now, as a reporter, Camille returns to her hometown to cover an unsolved murder while staying in her childhood home.—
Amanda Favazza,
Southern Living,
15 Feb. 2026
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The sport of wrestling, a national pastime in Iran, has been hit hard by the Iranian regime’s slaughter of protesters seeking to end 47 years of Islamist totalitarian rule in the country.—
Benjamin Weinthal,
FOXNews.com,
7 Feb. 2026
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The animal rights activist saved two cows from slaughter, Liberty and Indigo, in 2020.—
Karen Garcia,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Jan. 2026
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Bitcoin has fallen deeper into the dumps this week, briefly breaking below $73,000, and there could be even more crypto carnage ahead, according to several Wall Street shops.—
Liz Napolitano,
CNBC,
4 Feb. 2026
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Activists offer new death toll While the protests have been halted for weeks after the crackdown, information trickling out of Iran via Starlink satellite dishes is reaching activists, who have been trying to tally the carnage.—
Jon Gambrell,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Jan. 2026
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The operation also resulted in the killing of two US citizens, the deployment of aggressive tactics by armed, masked DHS agents, and a soaring sense of trepidation permeating Minnesota’s immigrant communities.—
Yahya Salem,
CNN Money,
17 Feb. 2026
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Under Belgian law, circumcision is supposed to be performed by medical professionals, with the country also recently prohibiting Jewish kosher slaughter, or shechita, which requires animals to be conscious at the time of their killing.—
Naomi Lim,
The Washington Examiner,
16 Feb. 2026
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The teenager’s accounts were littered with references to white supremacy, antisemitism and violence, with a particular focus on past mass shootings, including the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School.—
Shelly Bradbury,
Denver Post,
4 Feb. 2026
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The regime is resorting to massacres to suppress the unrest.—
Shahrnush Parsipur,
Time,
3 Feb. 2026
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What led to Cruz’s slaying years later is not immediately clear.—
Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Feb. 2026
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The slaying dramatized the perils faced by journalists in Mexico, where scores have been slain in recent years.—
Foreign Correspondent,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Feb. 2026
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Egan says 95 percent of customers order steak, from prime or choice beef bought from a longtime family packer in Nebraska, then aged and cut in the restaurant’s butchery.—
Tom Sietsema,
Washington Post,
17 Jan. 2026
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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 17 Feb. 2026.
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