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Recent Examples of bloodshed
That dispute ended in tragedy, destruction, and mass bloodshed.
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Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
The scale of Syria’s bloodshed, and of the regime’s repression, is unique among modern conflicts.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
All of their faces are covered with the same mask, both to preserve their anonymity but also for powerful effect: People on both sides of the bloodshed look virtually the same.
—Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2025
The bloodshed comes on the heels of a deadly vehicle ramming attack in Germany.
—Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 1 Jan. 2025
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Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
The scale of Syria’s bloodshed, and of the regime’s repression, is unique among modern conflicts.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
All of their faces are covered with the same mask, both to preserve their anonymity but also for powerful effect: People on both sides of the bloodshed look virtually the same.
—Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2025
The bloodshed comes on the heels of a deadly vehicle ramming attack in Germany.
—Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 1 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloodshed
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Edward Montero, 28, was arraigned Tuesday on an indictment charging him with manslaughter and leaving the scene of an accident.—
Rocco Parascandola,
New York Daily News,
18 Feb. 2025
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Henrietta pleaded no contest to manslaughter on Feb. 6, the prosecutor's office said.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
People.com,
17 Feb. 2025
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The dead man found hog-tied on the side of a highway earlier this week has been identified as a 57-year-old Queens resident as NYPD detectives launch a homicide investigation, police said Friday.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
7 Feb. 2025
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The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled his death a homicide caused by complications of blunt force injuries to his head.—
Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
6 Feb. 2025
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“Bloodshed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloodshed. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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