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Recent Examples of blood feud
At first, the story plays its cards close to its chest before transforming wildly and suddenly into a mythological epic about secret societies and millennia-old blood feuds.
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Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 22 Dec. 2023
Albanian, Colombian, and Mexican groups have formed alliances with local gangs to store and move drug shipments, transmitting their own blood feuds into Ecuador, where the most powerful gangs, Los Choneros and Los Lobos, are locked in conflict.
—Ivan Briscoe and Glaeldys González, Foreign Affairs, 4 Oct. 2023
The attack deepened a blood feud and led to days of clashes that left 13 people dead and forced 4,000 from their homes.
—Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Sep. 2023
Under the practice of baad, families exchange women to settle blood feuds.
—Ross McDonnell, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2023
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Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 22 Dec. 2023
Albanian, Colombian, and Mexican groups have formed alliances with local gangs to store and move drug shipments, transmitting their own blood feuds into Ecuador, where the most powerful gangs, Los Choneros and Los Lobos, are locked in conflict.
—Ivan Briscoe and Glaeldys González, Foreign Affairs, 4 Oct. 2023
The attack deepened a blood feud and led to days of clashes that left 13 people dead and forced 4,000 from their homes.
—Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Sep. 2023
Under the practice of baad, families exchange women to settle blood feuds.
—Ross McDonnell, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blood feud
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And, a handful of them opted to accessorize with bad blood.Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 26 Sep. 2024
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However, none of the insiders claim to THR that there is any bad blood between the two stars.Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 14 Aug. 2024
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During his time in Congress, Pocan has pushed back on efforts to ban or force a sale of the popular social media app Tik Tok and was quick to address last year's attack on Israel by Hamas, which drew him into a feud with a pro-Israel group.Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2024
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Goldberg would go on to have memorable feuds with Triple H, Brock Lesnar, and Bobby Lashley and win multiple championships, including the WWE World Heavyweight Championship and the WWE Universal Championship twice.David Faris, Newsweek, 2 Nov. 2024
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Daniels couldn’t lead the team to scores after the interception or after a fumble on Pittsburgh’s next drive.Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
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Tiffany Chang, Valley Christian golf: Finished third in the individual CCS championships and helped the Warriors capture a fourth consecutive team section title with a record score of 336.Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2024
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As an intimacy grows between Cassie and Bryan, Berryman again dances with shadows of Blanche and Stanley, but with all the hatred removed, the poisons of class and time and gender drained away.Sara Holdren, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2024
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The hatred isn’t just coming from anonymous fringe posters either.Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
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Even Juan Hernandez of Santa Clara, whose nose was broken by protesters while attending the 2016 Trump rally in his MAGA hat, senses a deeper animosity now than eight years ago.Julia Prodis Sulek, The Mercury News, 3 Nov. 2024
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Since there is still plenty of animosity and story between Knight and Carmelo Hayes, Andrade will, unfortunately, be the one taking the fall.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
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Once Trump withdraws America’s aegis over these allies, what is to prevent old hostilities from resurfacing, from enmities between Germany and France or Germany and Poland to lingering resentments between the Japanese and Koreans?Andreas Kluth, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
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To say Raffensperger has been a constant in Trump’s craw would be to understate the ex-President’s enmity toward him.Philip Elliott, TIME, 4 Nov. 2024
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Symptoms include jaundice, pale stools, dark urine, fever, and severe pain in the upper right belly.Qin Rao, Verywell Health, 16 Oct. 2024
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Patients may experience fatigue, jaundice or ascites, which is an accumulation of fluid in the abdomen, Carr says.Caroline C. Boyle, USA TODAY, 27 Sep. 2024
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In 2018, Stephen Bannon, a former campaign strategist for Mr. Trump, framed this antagonism in stark terms.Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Nov. 2024
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The atmosphere is boosted by some splendid acting: Fiennes lends a vulnerable and earnest demeanor to the honorable Lawrence, while Tucci’s complexity and Lithgow’s antagonism spark their respective rival cardinals.Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2024
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“Blood feud.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blood%20feud. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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