carnage

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Recent Examples of carnage While docked in Florida, the troupe encounters trouble in the form of psychotic Twisty the Clown (John Carroll Lynch), a deranged murderer with a taste for sideshow carnage. Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Oct. 2025 Related Stories His latest is a blunt cinematic instrument — loud, loaded and bursting with carnage and ideological angst. Clayton Davis, Variety, 2 Oct. 2025 Erika Kirk, like most of us, is tired of the carnage. Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 23 Sep. 2025 Directed by genre-hopping Ben Wheatley and written by John Wick creator Derek Kolstad from a story hatched by Kolstad and Odenkirk, the subversive Western is a take-no-prisoners gore fest that peppers all the visceral carnage with an equal sprinkling of dry wit. Michael Rechtshaffen, HollywoodReporter, 15 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for carnage
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Noun
  • The university also produced John Morse, a former Colorado senate president who earned national attention for his leadership in passing gun control legislation following the Aurora theater shooting and Sandy Hook massacre.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2025
  • On the day of the massacre, the shooter opened and walked through the west door with no hindrance, though it had been pulled shut by a teacher.
    Matthew J. Friedman, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Matt Jones and Christina Long discuss whats next for Arkansas football after the Notre Dame slaughter on Saturday.
    Christina Long, Arkansas Online, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The 1994 slaughter of 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda became the paradigmatic example, prosecuted at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and recognized by the UN Security Council.
    Faisal Kutty, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025

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