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Recent Examples of blood feud
This is a dark drama about a pair of Irish families who are shepherds and get into a blood feud over an incident of sheep rustling.
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Scott Phillips, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
Now, with the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on Wednesday, the blood feud between the two appeared to deepen, with American peacemakers standing on the sidelines.
—David Ignatius, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
Popular on Variety All of this works like a charm, but as the film goes on, it’s slowly subsumed by a larger tale in the background, unfolding in the form of oblique 1950s flashbacks and opaque references to decades-old blood feuds.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 21 May 2024
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.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 22 Dec. 2023
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Scott Phillips, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
Now, with the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on Wednesday, the blood feud between the two appeared to deepen, with American peacemakers standing on the sidelines.
—David Ignatius, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
Popular on Variety All of this works like a charm, but as the film goes on, it’s slowly subsumed by a larger tale in the background, unfolding in the form of oblique 1950s flashbacks and opaque references to decades-old blood feuds.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 21 May 2024
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.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 22 Dec. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blood feud
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But there’s bad blood between Burritt and his Cleveland-Cliffs counterpart, raising the question of whether U.S. Steel investors would need to heap on the pressure to get a deal done.—
Andrew Ross Sorkin,
New York Times,
3 Jan. 2025
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Swift endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris on Sept. 11, leading to bad blood with GOP nominee Donald Trump who sees her as an anti-hero.—
David K. Li,
NBC News,
1 Oct. 2024
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This eventually led to Ripley having a feud with Morgan and Mysterio, which quickly became one of the most important storylines of the year.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
19 Jan. 2025
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Though neither party ever said outright what their feud was about, the pair exchanged fairly direct and outright targeted comments on social media and in interviews.—
Stephanie Sengwe,
People.com,
18 Jan. 2025
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And again, that touchdown montage recommended above — which includes a half-dozen scores against the Bears — should provide a pretty sizable initial adrenaline rush.—
Dan Wiederer,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Jan. 2025
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Season 1 had a stellar 96% score, while season 2 now has a perfect 100% score.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 2025
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To understand why Germans at different levels of society backed Hitler, scholars often cite people’s deep commitment to Nazi ideology; the hatred of Jews, homosexuals, Romani, or Communists; or sheer psychopathic sadism.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Jan. 2025
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Platforms originally designed to connect people and foster communities are being weaponized to spread hatred and violence.—
Emil Sayegh,
Forbes,
13 Jan. 2025
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Already before the earthquakes, Turkish disdain and animosity were communicated to Syrians by the thousand cuts of everyday interactions.—
Alia Malek,
New York Times,
17 Jan. 2025
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Despite past animosity toward the ACA, some influential Republicans are coming around to keeping enhanced subsidies signed into law by President Biden.—
Bruce Japsen,
Forbes,
17 Jan. 2025
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The one area in which Trump shows unwavering determination is his enmity toward technical expertise.—
Henry Farrell,
Foreign Affairs,
23 Dec. 2024
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The closest parallel was nearly 50 years ago, when then-Egyptian President Anwar Sadat jettisoned decades of enmity and abruptly announced his readiness to travel to Israel, kickstarting diplomacy that led to a peace treaty.—
Ned Temko,
The Christian Science Monitor,
19 Dec. 2024
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When cirrhosis sets in, Dr. Lai says people often develop jaundice, which is yellowing of eyes and skin.—
Brittany Risher,
SELF,
6 Dec. 2024
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In severe cases, patients may experience extreme weight loss, jaundice, inflammation of the pancreas, delirium, shock, liver failure, massive hemorrhaging and multi-organ dysfunction, the CDC stated.—
Melissa Rudy,
Fox News,
5 Dec. 2024
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Both stories are unusually accurate in their sense of hostile inclusion, with French pioneers, Native tribes and white Americans in a state of perpetual antagonism.—
Chris Vognar,
New York Times,
9 Jan. 2025
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Yet Trump’s position as president of the United States—the largest funder and primary backer of numerous international organizations—makes his antagonism uniquely consequential.—
Allison Carnegie,
Foreign Affairs,
24 Dec. 2024
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“Blood feud.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blood%20feud. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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