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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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There is no bad blood or anything, so nothing crazy happened.Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 2 Oct. 2024
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And even if the cold math is that the show was not well-watched compared to a ludicrous budget, it’s created a lot of bad blood all the same.Paul Tassi, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2024
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But what is certain is that Owens is benefitting from his heel turn and his intense feud with Orton.Blake Oestriecher, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
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Gina tells Tamra she was hurt when Tamra tried to throw her under a figurative red double-decker bus in London, collateral damage in Tamra’s current feud with Shannon.Peter Larsen, Orange County Register, 1 Nov. 2024
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The touchdown would turn the game on its head, as USC’s defense forced an immediate punt, giving the ball back to Moss, who needed just three plays to move the length of the field before finding a wide-open Kyle Ford for a go-ahead score.Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2024
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An average percent rank was calculated to find a score representing how vulnerable each industry/state is likely to be in another recession.Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
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At the same time, there is still an intense hatred among many entities surrounding Israel that want to see its demise.Karl Vick, TIME, 29 Oct. 2024
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People like that fill me with violent hostility and even hatred.Yukio Mishima, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2024
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While pop culture often exaggerates the animosity between cats and dogs, reality paints a more nuanced picture.Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
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Kevin Hamilton had worked in the mines since the 1970s and never faced animosity from his neighbors toward his work until the fracking boom.Karina Atkins, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2024
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López Obrador suggested during a press conference Thursday that Washington helped stir up enmity between factions of the Sinaloa drug cartel after arresting two cartel leaders in the US.Michael Rios, CNN, 20 Sep. 2024
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Perhaps whispers are more important in a kingdom where everyone is already shouting their enmity.Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 30 June 2024
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Symptoms include fever, vomiting, headache, back pain, fatigue, jaundice (yellowing of the skin and whites of the eyes), and bleeding from the eyes, nose, or mouth.Lindsay Curtis, Health, 24 Oct. 2024
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Symptoms include severe and constant upper abdominal pain that travels to the back, nausea, vomiting, and, in more advanced cases, jaundice (yellowing of the skin and whites of the eyes caused by a buildup of the substance bilirubin in the blood).Qin Rao, Verywell Health, 16 Oct. 2024
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Turkish immigrants were also the butt of jokes that combined antisemitic stereotypes with anti-immigrant antagonism.Pratiksha Thangam Menon, JSTOR Daily, 18 Aug. 2023
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All the while, Oh and Comer’s slow dance of antagonism crossed with infatuation is some of the most thrilling acting in recent television memory.Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 29 Sep. 2024
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“Blood feud.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blood%20feud. Accessed 10 Nov. 2024.
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