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Recent Examples of violence About the Iryana Zarutska case Zarutska emigrated to the United States from Kyiv, Ukraine, to escape the violence from Russia’s invasion, her family wrote on a GoFundMe account. Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 9 Sep. 2025 Hill’s lawyers fired back at Vaccaro’s accusations and vehemently denied any violence took place in a statement to TMZ Sports on Monday. Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 9 Sep. 2025 White dramatizes Gurudev’s encounters with FARC leaders during peace negotiations in Havana and Bogotá, while also following three young Colombians, Alberto, Carlos, and Francisco, whose lives are torn apart by violence. Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2025 Now, the Oscar winner has finally done it, and though the song remains much the same — a laboratory, an experiment, violence, revenge, fire = bad! David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for violence
Recent Examples of Synonyms for violence
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • The goal is to allow the fire to meet the holding features at the lowest possible fire intensity.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Its presence in the night sky on Saturday may make any auroras harder to see, but that does depends on their intensity.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • There is nothing left now but rhythm and exhaustion and raw emotion and stardust bursting out of you.
    George Caulkin, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The show’s palette trends toward bottle-green woods, gauzy golden light, dusky midnight-blue nighttime scenes, and grimly gray interiors, and within those tableaus, Task’s male characters are gorgeously aggrieved, emotion pouring off of them like coffee from a Wawa urn.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • And Henry Rutledge, who missed the Week 1 matchup with a lower-body injury, returned to action and resulted in Charlotte’s longest rush of the night on his second carry – 14 yards.
    Hunter Bailey, Charlotte Observer, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Laurel Ivory was the goalkeeper who claimed the clean sheet for KC on Saturday night, as Lorena appeared on the injury report late in the week with a knee ailment.
    Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But those with long memories are tempering enthusiasm with prudence, remembering how the dot-com bubble led to unsustainable valuations and a painful crash.
    Tiz Gambacorta, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • This reveals how enthusiasm without integration discipline wastes time and capital.
    Malana VanTyler, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Investigators later confirmed his DNA matched evidence from that case and others, including attacks in Okemos, Michigan, in 1994; Birmingham, Michigan, in 1995; and Columbus, Ohio, in 1997, as well as two assaults in Ventura in the early 1980s.
    Nour Rahal, Freep.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Though Smith was charged with four counts of assault for scaring and endangering the villagers, troopers did not say he was involved in his mother’s death.
    Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Before the Bucs' preseason finale, head coach Todd Bowles praised Sanders for his effort on special teams and his overall aggressiveness.
    Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The Detroit Tigers came into last offseason with some money to spend and a lot of aggressiveness.
    Zach Pressnell, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • London — Large crowds of people protesting the British government’s decision to ban the activist group Palestine Action gathered in London’s Parliament Square on Saturday, in a show of continuing support since it was designated as a terror organization in July.
    Kara Fox, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2025
  • For Bear, the new arrangement is great about 99 percent of the time… the only drawback is that Nikki occasionally snaps back into her old self and screams in utter terror for a few seconds, before resuming the love-bombing.
    Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2025

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“Violence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/violence. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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