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Recent Examples of brutality The sequence of him observing the chaos and the brutality of the massacre around him, that was pretty heavy and intense. Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 7 May 2025 Prayer has always been my bulwark against the casual brutality of life. Nelson C.j., New York Times, 4 May 2025 The real work to change CPD’s historic culture of brutality and discrimination has hardly begun. Chicago Tribune, 22 Apr. 2025 But hopefully his brutality would be even more intense because of his kindness. Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 29 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for brutality
Recent Examples of Synonyms for brutality
Noun
  • On Tuesday, May 20, the Orange County District Attorney's Office confirmed in a press release that Alejandro Acosta Oliveros was charged with felony animal cruelty and felony theft of a companion animal.
    Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 21 May 2025
  • Turquoise Morton, 38, is charged with abandoning a domestic animal and animal cruelty for allegedly torturing, tormenting, or maiming a dog.
    Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 20 May 2025
Noun
  • Pakistan, which has a history of providing clandestine support to the Taliban, has blamed the latter for providing a safe haven to terrorists who commit atrocities on Pakistani soil.
    Hasan Ali, Christian Science Monitor, 19 May 2025
  • But fighting had broken out across Sudan, and reports of atrocities were filtering in from the countryside: mass rapes, mass executions, torture.
    Nicolas Niarchos, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • Hope is something that Dior’s creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri can related to, having explored the dualities of hope and despair (as well as lightness and darkness, and fluidity and animalism) in her spring 2023 collection.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 22 Jan. 2025
  • All of a sudden, that animalism has been incarnated.
    Hunter Ingram, Variety, 25 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • This strangeness causes all sorts of internal agitation, an uneasiness about humanity’s closeness to animality.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2025
  • But also, something more intrinsic — something like her animality.
    Camille Bromley Gabra Zackman Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025

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“Brutality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brutality. Accessed 25 May. 2025.

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