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Recent Examples of bloodshed
And as the action hurtles toward its inevitable bloodshed, Washington places the audience in a ferocious chokehold that never lets up.
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Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2025
Chances are that Hausmann-Stokes — and the team of fellow vets behind-the-scenes or in front of the camera — has seen enough bloodshed, and is astute enough to know that his film’s audience doesn’t need more of that imagery either.
—Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 27 Feb. 2025
How are we supposed to think about all this bloodshed?
—Aja Romano, Vox, 24 Feb. 2025
In addition to witnessing bloodshed as a soldier and a journalist, Godwin has also lost his eldest sister, Jain, who was killed along with her fiancé and their best man in an army ambush in 1978, just weeks before her wedding.
—Dina Gachman, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
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Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2025
Chances are that Hausmann-Stokes — and the team of fellow vets behind-the-scenes or in front of the camera — has seen enough bloodshed, and is astute enough to know that his film’s audience doesn’t need more of that imagery either.
—Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 27 Feb. 2025
How are we supposed to think about all this bloodshed?
—Aja Romano, Vox, 24 Feb. 2025
In addition to witnessing bloodshed as a soldier and a journalist, Godwin has also lost his eldest sister, Jain, who was killed along with her fiancé and their best man in an army ambush in 1978, just weeks before her wedding.
—Dina Gachman, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloodshed
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Hutchinson's trial judge rejected that, instead agreeing with two prosecution psychologists and saying that no correlation between Hutchinson's diagnosis and the murders had been established, reported the Lakeland Ledger, part of the USA TODAY Network.—
James Powel,
USA Today,
3 May 2025
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After a jury was unable to reach a verdict in the initial murder trial last year, Read is being retried on charges including second-degree murder, vehicular manslaughter while operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol and leaving the scene of a collision causing death.—
Meredith Deliso,
ABC News,
2 May 2025
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Watching the ramps drop down over the walls, the barrels roll out onto the battlefield, and the fiery carnage brought on by their explosions?—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
20 Apr. 2025
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TikTok is peppered with videos of carnage at the movie theaters: huge bags of popcorn exploding across aisles, oceans of bodies roiling up and down, rolls of toilet paper flying from seats C2 to K14, boys being escorted by police out of screening rooms.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
16 Apr. 2025
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Before that, mass demon slaughter in Path of Exile 2. Blue Prince?—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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At my university, University of Southern California, a multi-ethnic ecumenical cohort held candlelight vigils, teach-ins, and rallies demanding an end to the slaughter.—
Sandy Tolan,
Rolling Stone,
16 Apr. 2025
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India has blamed Pakistan for the massacre, a charge Islamabad denies.—
Amanda Castro
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 May 2025
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In the Dark: The Killings in Haditha In the Dark: The Killings in Haditha delves into the tragic 2005 massacre in which U.S. marines killed numerous Iraqi civilians in Haditha, revealing the profound anguish of the victims’ families and the lack of accountability from the American government.—
Paul Grein,
Billboard,
1 May 2025
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Shortly before the struggle, the man now identified as a suspect in the killing was captured on several residents’ Ring cameras trying to get into other apartments in the building.—
Richard Winton,
Los Angeles Times,
2 May 2025
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Unfortunately for Lucas yet another attempt at that wolf ends instead in the accidental killing of the aforementioned father riding by on his horse.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
1 May 2025
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Yolo County District Attorney’s prosecutors decided not to pursue the death penalty in the slayings.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
27 Apr. 2025
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The manhunt The slaying of Pascal shocked in the Upper Florida Keys community, which, while certainly not immune from crime, rarely experiences brutal murders.—
David Goodhue,
Miami Herald,
24 Apr. 2025
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Legal cases involving Baldwin and armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, both charged with manslaughter, ended with Baldwin’s case being dismissed and Gutierrez-Reed found guilty.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
1 May 2025
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In February, a jury found Rodriquez-Lopez guilty of voluntary manslaughter and using a firearm in connection with the death of 22-year-old Aaron Wayne Leach Jr., according to the release.—
Natalie Demaree,
Miami Herald,
30 Apr. 2025
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Most gun deaths are intentional, with suicides accounting for 58% and homicides for 38% of 46,728 gun deaths in 2023.—
David Yamane,
The Conversation,
1 May 2025
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Dolton, Riverdale deaths The medical examiner’s office also reported a homicide in Dolton involving a Chicago man.—
Mike Nolan,
Chicago Tribune,
1 May 2025
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“Bloodshed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloodshed. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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