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Recent Examples of bloodletting
The latter refers to the sectarian bloodletting that followed Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein’s removal.
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Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
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.
—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
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Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloodletting
Noun
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Any bloodshed is almost always strictly in service of a joke.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
The Hollywood Reporter,
12 Mar. 2025
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The resulting bloodshed brings the pair of goofy gendarmes into bewildered action, as the Zero cavalry trots in on short-legged white horses and Jony, Line, Rudy, and the local One leader, Jane (Anamaria Vartolomei), deploy on their respective sides.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
11 Mar. 2025
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Deputy District Attorney David Jarman, who is prosecuting the case, said the facts support a second-degree murder charge.—
Teri Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Mar. 2025
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In the episode, which airs April 4, Mickey will team up with her nephew Bode Leone (Max Thieriot) to investigate a murder attempt on her father, Wes Fox (W. Earl Brown).—
Alamin Yohannes,
EW.com,
14 Mar. 2025
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The women in the fresco are both hunters and dancers, suggesting that the duality of slaughter and revelry was a central tenet.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 Feb. 2025
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More victims sent to slaughter In 2024, pig butchering revenue grew nearly 40% year over year, with the number of deposits to pig butchering scams growing nearly 210% over the same period, according to Chainalysis.—
Dylan Butts,
CNBC,
13 Feb. 2025
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Nihilistic action comedies such as Novocaine are built on juxtaposing irreverent humor with cathartic carnage, which can sometimes feel off-putting and contrived.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
14 Mar. 2025
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By the end of the carnage, the pop star is incarcerated for the murders, but the Levelists, who all managed to escape the compound before police arrived, are spread out across disparate communities, blending in, waiting.—
Jessica Wang,
EW.com,
14 Mar. 2025
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Two killings in 27 hours A short while later, in April 2023, Messiah Nantwi detonated.—
Nicholas Williams,
New York Daily News,
16 Mar. 2025
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Police got the suspect’s description from security camera footage at Nash’s home in the 4900 block of Melinda Drive, where the killings took place.—
Harriet Ramos,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
15 Mar. 2025
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There remains some debate over whether the attack led by John Mason, a Connecticut Colony founder honored with a statue in a niche on the Capitol, can be celebrated as Pequot War victory or a criminal massacre of women and children.—
Mark Pazniokas,
Hartford Courant,
15 Mar. 2025
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The Orlando City Council last month endorsed a design for a memorial unanimously approved by the Pulse Memorial Advisory Committee, which included relatives of the 49 people who died in the massacre and some members who had visited the club that horrible night in June 2016.—
Stephen Hudak,
Orlando Sentinel,
13 Mar. 2025
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Manson and his followers were eventually arrested and charged in the savage slayings in December 1969.—
Lynsey Eidell,
People.com,
7 Mar. 2025
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Wedding’s placement on the Top Ten list could be tied to the slaying of the government’s top witness against him in Medellín, Colombia, in January.—
Jesse Hyde,
Rolling Stone,
6 Mar. 2025
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Chef Stephen Peak sources 90 percent of ingredients from the on-site greenhouse and gardens, and staffers practice whole-animal butchery, make their own cheese and charcuterie, bake their own bread, and preserve and ferment seasonal produce.—
Nicholas DeRenzo,
AFAR Media,
27 Dec. 2024
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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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“Bloodletting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloodletting. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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