savagery

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Recent Examples of savagery Unlike his sister Athena (who was associated with military strategy and other relatively civilized aspects of warfare), Ares represented pure savagery. Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 20 Jan. 2025 First of all, of course, the savagery of the crime. Hazlitt, 26 Nov. 2024 When the cop asks why the yakuza would do that, Suzie points to their general savagery. Chris Klimek, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2024 Whatever Pratt imagined for Indian schools as an answer to Indian persecution, the schools became, in the early decades especially, places of repression, punishment, and occasional savagery. Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for savagery
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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
  • Today, the Trump Administration’s theatre of cruelty toward immigrants can be traced to any number of root causes, including racist nostalgia, economic insecurity, and far-right Christian nationalism.
    Michael Luo, New Yorker, 20 May 2025
Noun
  • Trump’s allusions to police brutality – the very thing demonstrators were protesting – only seemed to rile them and underscore what was at stake.
    Chelsea Bailey, CNN Money, 24 May 2025
  • The jury has seen his brutality in the harrowing video at the InterContinental Hotel and photographs of her injuries.
    Elizabeth Geddes, Rolling Stone, 23 May 2025

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“Savagery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/savagery. Accessed 29 May. 2025.

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