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Recent Examples of bloodshed
But for all its bloodshed, the movie’s not sharp enough to land a cutting blow — or even to break skin.
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Alison Willmore, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2026
The pieces are all in place for a viciously enjoyable midnight action romp, which the film most certainly is when the bloodshed first begins.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 18 Mar. 2026
Even among former supporters of the government, a widening revulsion at the bloodshed was giving way to an urgent sense that something had to change.
—Alex Shams, Time, 14 Mar. 2026
The bloodshed marks the shooting with the most casualties in Travis County in at least 12 years and among the highest victim counts of shootings in Texas during that period, according to an American-Statesman analysis of Gun Violence Archive data.
—Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 6 Mar. 2026
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Alison Willmore, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2026
The pieces are all in place for a viciously enjoyable midnight action romp, which the film most certainly is when the bloodshed first begins.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 18 Mar. 2026
Even among former supporters of the government, a widening revulsion at the bloodshed was giving way to an urgent sense that something had to change.
—Alex Shams, Time, 14 Mar. 2026
The bloodshed marks the shooting with the most casualties in Travis County in at least 12 years and among the highest victim counts of shootings in Texas during that period, according to an American-Statesman analysis of Gun Violence Archive data.
—Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 6 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloodshed
Noun
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Ernest attempts to identify which of the hostages is guilty of the murder and the attempted heist.—
Sandra Dallas,
Denver Post,
19 Apr. 2026
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Two men were found guilty Saturday night in the murder of a Highland Park man, who was beaten to death in a 2022 fight along the Lake Michigan shoreline.—
Clifford Ward,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Faces of Death isn’t a remake of the infamous 1978 exploitation landmark, a faux documentary that positioned itself as an anthology of actual carnage (though much of its disturbing footage was fake).—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
10 Apr. 2026
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Every shark movie owes a debt to the sacred mother Jaws, but the thriller about bitey creatures spreading carnage and mayhem in bad weather that Thrash most resembles is Alexandre Aja’s superior nail-biter, Crawl.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Apr. 2026
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The bill would require employers of more than 500 people in the livestock slaughter industry to provide reasonable access to restrooms.—
Dillon Thomas,
CBS News,
15 Apr. 2026
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Each contract is for 40,000 pounds of live cattle, typically about 30 to 35 head of finished, slaughter-ready cattle.—
Alex Harring,
CNBC,
15 Apr. 2026
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Hannah Abesidon, the daughter of 78-year-old Holocaust survivor Tibor Weitzen, one of the 15 people killed in the Bondi Beach massacre, recounted her experience of the attack in which her father was killed.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Apr. 2026
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In the film, a modern-day young female director, Mariana, played by Ioana Iacob, stages a reënactment of the massacre at a square in Bucharest.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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Washington wanted to test if the Iranian command, after seeing the destruction from six weeks of war and the killing of its Supreme Leader, would now bend to its will, experts said.—
Saeed Shah,
Time,
13 Apr. 2026
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Hezbollah has a new org chart Hezbollah has gone back to basics since that pager attack, and Israel's killing later that same month of Nasrallah, Jihad says.—
Lauren Frayer,
NPR,
12 Apr. 2026
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Prosecutors did not reveal a possible motive for the slaying.—
Madeline Buckley,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Apr. 2026
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But prosecutors during his arraignment described Rodriguez, 18, as an active participant in the slaying.—
Gardiner Anderson,
New York Daily News,
14 Apr. 2026
Noun
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District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announced Monday that Merih Fssha Solomon, a 47-year-old from Walnut Creek, was charged with vehicular manslaughter in connection with the Feb 27 crash in the city's Mission Bay neighborhood.—
Tim Fang,
CBS News,
14 Apr. 2026
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Duran was convicted of manslaughter in February after a bench trial in the death of Eric Duprey.—
Michael Ruiz,
FOXNews.com,
14 Apr. 2026
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The suspect has been charged with first- and third-degree assault for the incident, but charges are expected to be amended by the Hennepin County Attorney's Office to include homicide.—
WCCO Staff,
CBS News,
15 Apr. 2026
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The seven defendants are charged with culpable homicide, a crime similar to involuntary manslaughter that alleges that the accused were aware that their reckless conduct posed a risk and failed to prevent it.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
14 Apr. 2026
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“Bloodshed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloodshed. Accessed 21 Apr. 2026.
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