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Recent Examples of bloody murder
Lucy wakes at exactly 3:33 am every morning, plagued by horrific visions, and her nightmares draw her into the orbit of police detective Ravi Dhillon’s (Nikesh Patel) investigations of a bloody murder and a child’s abduction.
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Matt Kamen, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
After a bloody murder sends a high school party into a panic, Winnie ends up saving her brother Jimmy (Aiden Howard) by killing Waters.
—J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 10 Nov. 2023
This one comes with sledgehammer and a penchant for bloody murder.
—Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2023
What one neighbor described as a typical Friday morning in a small Houston suburb turned into a bloody murder scene over an alleged affair.
—Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 14 Aug. 2023
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Matt Kamen, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
After a bloody murder sends a high school party into a panic, Winnie ends up saving her brother Jimmy (Aiden Howard) by killing Waters.
—J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 10 Nov. 2023
This one comes with sledgehammer and a penchant for bloody murder.
—Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2023
What one neighbor described as a typical Friday morning in a small Houston suburb turned into a bloody murder scene over an alleged affair.
—Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 14 Aug. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloody murder
Adverb
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The Penguins were down 2-1, but were controlling the majority of play when Rust was blatantly tripped in the corner.—
Josh Yohe,
New York Times,
12 Oct. 2025
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Steve Ellis, a former deputy director of the Bureau of Land Management under the Obama administration, said blatantly partisan political messages have no place on agency websites.—
Kirk Siegler,
NPR,
7 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Those people have clearly not seen Browns QB Dillon Gabriel play.—
Vic Tafur,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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This morning, sentimentality keeps you from seeing a situation clearly.—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
15 Oct. 2025
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One play after a Jalen Hurts fumble — and only three plays into the second half — the Philadelphia Eagles were trailing the Los Angeles Rams 26-7 in their NFC championship game rematch, with an offensive effort that was lustily booed by the home crowd.—
Rohan Nadkarni,
NBC news,
21 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Anne, too, is quite busy having her baby, noisily.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
25 Sep. 2025
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But what happens when everyone who can noisily quit already has?—
Keren Landman,
The Atlantic,
17 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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One of Fidel and Raúl Castro’s sisters, Juanita, spent decades vociferously denouncing her brothers from exile in Miami.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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Over the next weeks, parents and students began to complain vociferously about getting sick at school.—
Nate Anderson,
ArsTechnica,
25 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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When threatened, gopher snakes often flatten their heads and hiss loudly, mimicking rattlesnakes to deter predators.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Oct. 2025
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People were able to talk in most areas, though those who did usually didn’t do so loudly.—
Victoria Uwumarogie,
Essence,
13 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Shot in Montreal by David Picard, directed by Stefanie Soho, and styled by longtime Aldo collaborator Cary Tauben, the campaign includes moments like a woman walking onto a karaoke stage for a solo number and a young man at first reserved and then boisterously attempting to play the tuba.—
Stephen Garner,
Footwear News,
3 Sep. 2019
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Harris resoundingly rejected this argument.—
Carrie Johnson,
NPR,
17 Sep. 2025
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Those fortunes were made and squandered rapidly—Iran went from bereft during the Iran-Iraq War, to unbeatable two decades later, to resoundingly beaten a little less than two decades after that.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Bloody murder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloody%20murder. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.
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