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Recent Examples of take-no-prisoners The film’s revolutionaries, who call themselves the French 75, come clothed in the take-no-prisoners rhetoric and fist-in-the-air attitude that’s been the signifier of righteous radicalism since the late ’60s. Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 17 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 Nothing about Francis Lawrence’s take-no-prisoners adaptation of Richard Bachman’s (aka Stephen King) staggering novel offers one shard of hope for any of us to wrap our bloodied fingers around. Randy Myers, Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2025 The fact that any remaining mutual admiration is fueled by mutual animosity is thus introduced right up front, and the movie wastes zero time setting out the rules of engagement for what will soon become take-no-prisoners warfare between the Roses. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 Aug. 2025 The third-favorite in New York, Strategic Focus, stands at 10-1 in Britain, which is to say, the take-no-prisoners London bookies think that the 6-1 New York odds are not high enough to reflect his chance of losing to Sovereignty by a measure of nearly fifty percent. Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2025 Newsom’s take-no-prisoners social media strategy has gone viral. Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 19 Aug. 2025 Karen Read and her attorney Alan Jackson, who just signed on to the latest twist in this take-no-prisoners legal struggle, aren’t sweating the sad wrongful-death suit brought in Plymouth County by John O’Keefe’s family. Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 6 Aug. 2025 Trump’s White House is accustomed to take-no-prisoners political messaging, continuing its aggressive style from last year’s campaign that critics describe as callous and vindictive. Chris Megerian, Fortune, 23 May 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for take-no-prisoners
Adjective
  • Those hoping to snatch a home in this busy period faced limited options on the market, as the country’s developers had chronically underbuilt compared to demand in the years following the subprime mortgage crisis, leading to ruthless bidding wars and climbing home values.
    Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Hedda orchestrates a ruthless game of manipulation, where lust, jealousy and betrayal collide.
    Patrick Hipes, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Just clean, merciless, fundamental football.
    Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Chat members were merciless in their rhetoric against fellow Young Republicans in competing factions of the organization.
    Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 15 Oct. 2025

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“Take-no-prisoners.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/take-no-prisoners. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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