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The German occupiers, however, acted with barbaric brutality, exterminating local Jewish populations and starving to death approximately two million Soviet prisoners of war by March 1942.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025 -
If Russia instead suffers economically, the invasion will be seen as a self-defeating, barbaric blunder.—
Andrew Kosenko,
Foreign Affairs,
5 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Under the Omanis, Zanzibar grew rich selling spices, ivory, and slaves, mostly non-Muslims from the interior, whom the island’s élites derided as washenzi, or uncivilized.—
Julian Lucas,
The New Yorker,
17 Oct. 2022
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Forcing a woman to choose between jail and carrying her rapist's baby is uncivilized and medieval.—
CNN,
CNN,
27 June 2022
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Experts told PolitiFact such narratives painting Haiti as a barbarous country are not new and are racist attempts to dehumanize Haitians.—
Jeff Cercone,
Austin American-Statesman,
14 Sep. 2024
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Treating barbarous body horror as something embedded in us deeper than the mutual love of a partner, especially when it’s done without the theatrical or exploitation trappings, makes for one of the New French Extremity’s most troubling works.—
Rory Doherty,
Vulture,
19 Sep. 2024
Adjective
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The ball used in the KBO is tackier and the seams are different, the strike zone is much smaller and the ballparks tend to be very hitter friendly.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
25 Feb. 2025
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In recent years, his chairmanship has fanned the flames of conflict between himself and downtown residents who say Carollo has used his power in the agency like a cudgel to clutter precious greenspace with tacky and unnecessary installations.—
Tess Riski,
Miami Herald,
14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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For such an inelegant behavior to be in chatbots as widespread and popular as GPT is a blunt reminder of two larger, seemingly contrary phenomena.—
Jonathan L. Zittrain,
The Atlantic,
17 Dec. 2024
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The result has been a competition that has felt, at times, unwieldy and inelegant and exhausting.—
Sam Lee,
The Athletic,
12 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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The head of the religious school was among those killed, said provincial government spokesman Muhammad Ali Saif.—
Reuters,
CNN,
28 Feb. 2025
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The necklace may have been worn by someone in the Lusatian culture, or during the early days of the West Baltic Kurgan culture, according to the provincial office.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
26 Feb. 2025
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Commutations for unsophisticated folk who had been over-sentenced would have been defensible, but impunity for practitioners of political violence is what doomed the Weimar Republic.—
George Liebmann,
Baltimore Sun,
23 Feb. 2025
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But Betancourt’s classmates found his take prudish and unsophisticated.—
Jake Nevins,
New York Times,
16 Jan. 2025
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“Animallike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/animallike. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.
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