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Recent Examples of brutality In a trio of bills in 2021, Cooper signed off on the most sweeping criminal justice reforms during his time in office in response to the death of George Floyd, which sparked accusations that racist police brutality is rampant. Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 8 Sep. 2025 More than a decade into the franchise, the sweeping romanticism of author Diana Gabaldon’s story is matched only by a constantly evolving definition of trauma, leaving each character –– and the audience –– to brace for the brutality of life and whatever fresh hell awaits them around every corner. Hunter Ingram, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025 The brutality of the Ukrainian frontline The challenges facing foreign volunteer fighters on the battlefield extend well beyond their legal label. Rebecca Johns, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025 For a long time, the book was consider unadaptable due to its brutality. Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for brutality
Recent Examples of Synonyms for brutality
Noun
  • But her private letters to her sister Cassandra show a sharper and more astringent person, someone whose cruelty and bitterness were redeemed only by her jokes.
    Lucy Worsley September 16, Literary Hub, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Justice came for Petal when her previous owner was arrested and charged with cruelty to animals on September 12, a press release from CGHS stated.
    Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Likewise, young Waller proves a revelation, capable of communicating Danny’s vulnerability and brutishness on the turn of a dime.
    Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Graphic videos of both atrocities spread quickly and widely online this week, appearing in people's social media feeds, often with little-to-no warning.
    Charles Trepany, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Critics have also pointed to the fact that Japanese educational syllabi have long glossed over wartime atrocities like the Nanjing Massacre.
    Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 10 Sep. 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 18 Sep. 2025.

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