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Recent Examples of bloodletting
Colonists abandoned once promising agricultural settlements, and, in an act of cruel, retaliatory bloodletting, Périer ordered the massacre of the Chaouacha, an innocent tribe uninvolved in the revolt.
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Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Nov. 2024
Kyle Dubas, the Penguins’ president of hockey operations, might not be planning the same kind of bloodletting.
—Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2024
But that doesn’t mean the bloodletting is over, at least at Sony.
—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2024
The trailer goes hard and heavy on the bloodletting, along with some cameos from other DC characters like Viola Davis’s Amanda Waller.
—Eric Francisco, Vulture, 19 Oct. 2024
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Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Nov. 2024
Kyle Dubas, the Penguins’ president of hockey operations, might not be planning the same kind of bloodletting.
—Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2024
But that doesn’t mean the bloodletting is over, at least at Sony.
—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2024
The trailer goes hard and heavy on the bloodletting, along with some cameos from other DC characters like Viola Davis’s Amanda Waller.
—Eric Francisco, Vulture, 19 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloodletting
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But the images will fuel both the extremist right-wing in Israel, who believe the ceasefire is a capitulation, and those who favor dialogue, who will argue that if 15 months of unrelenting war failed to dislodge Hamas, further bloodshed is folly.—
Mick Krever,
CNN,
20 Jan. 2025
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Despite the shocking bloodshed, the Russian army in Ukraine has slowly grown in size to a new high of at least 600,000 troops, according to Zelensky.—
David Axe,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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With some rare exceptions, a person must be convicted of first-degree murder in Idaho to be eligible for the death penalty.—
Kevin Fixler,
Idaho Statesman,
7 Feb. 2025
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After pleading guilty earlier this year to third-degree murder in the overdose death of a Savage man, Tino Andre Jones Jr., 34, of Woodbury, was sentenced to 135 months in prison Dec. 22.—
Alex Malm,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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Any number of genre films now turn on unsuspecting characters receiving coveted invites from charismatic neo-barons to their remote compounds for luxury, decadence, and ornate slaughter or some variation thereof.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
28 Jan. 2025
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Farmers there must submit an odor and pest control plan to the county and can build no more than four barns holding egg-laying hens or eight houses for raising chickens for slaughter.—
Gavin Off,
Charlotte Observer,
26 Jan. 2025
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That obscene quality, both in the baseness of the humor and the earnestness of the film’s central romance amidst all the (fake) blood and (shoddy) carnage, paid off: on Friday, Sundance awarded Atropia with its Dramatic Grand Jury Prize.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
31 Jan. 2025
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In the wake of Monday’s carnage within artificial intelligence stocks, JPMorgan found a buying opportunity in Ciena .—
Alex Harring,
CNBC,
28 Jan. 2025
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Superintendent Moore is very popular among the miners here, and so much feeling was aroused over the killing that officers took Barnes to the jail in Ozark tonight as a precaution against violence.—
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,
arkansasonline.com,
6 Feb. 2025
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After the sentencing for Dobson's killing, he was accused of angrily breaking a sprinkler head in his holding cell, which flooded the courtroom.—
Louis Casiano,
Fox News,
5 Feb. 2025
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One wonders: Would teaching the Tulsa massacre be allowed?—
Alec MacGillis,
ProPublica,
6 Feb. 2025
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The plan seeks to create a level 1 trauma hospital in the area and name it after Dr. A.C. Jackson, a Black surgeon killed during the massacre.—
Russell Contreras,
Axios,
4 Feb. 2025
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Three people have been arrested and officers with the Texas Department of Public Safety are seeking another person in connection with the slaying of a Hood County father, officials said.—
Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
15 Feb. 2025
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Daquan Pierce, Marcus Mathis, Cordero Miller, Joseph O. Smith and Brian Emory are charged in connection with that slaying, court records show.—
Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Feb. 2025
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The Devonshire is made up of four floors: butchery and cellar in the basement; the pub and by invitation-only green room on the ground level, with the restaurant and main kitchen on floor one followed by the Claret Room, the pub’s largest room on the second floor along with the terrace.—
Hikmat Mohammed,
WWD,
10 Dec. 2024
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Tate added that residents have expressed interest in utilizing animal byproducts, such as eggs, honey and even feathers for textiles, noting that animal butchery is only at licensed slaughterhouses — not at residential properties.—
Lyndsay C. Green,
Detroit Free Press,
27 Nov. 2024
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“Bloodletting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloodletting. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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