atrocity

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Rory Finnin is a professor of Ukrainian studies at the University of Cambridge and the author of “Blood of Others: Stalin’s Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2024

Ballard — who wanted, for example, the reading experience of “The Atrocity Exhibition” to be a kind of archaeology — Barlow wants players to be deeply involved and invested in the act of storytelling.

From Washington Post • Sep. 16, 2022

British attorney Nigel Povoas, lead prosecutor with U.S.-backed Atrocity Crimes Advisory Group, has conducted an initial survey of a residential area of Borodianka where apartment blocks were damaged or destroyed, allegedly by Russian warplanes.

From Reuters • Aug. 30, 2022

Atrocity Girl turned to women like Blair and Field who’d already blazed a trail.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 7, 2022

Thus relieved from what he loved to refer to as the Bulgarian Atrocity, Mr Wickham returned to London with the most unbounded and embarrassing gratitude and admiration for his saviour.

From The Wrong Box by Stevenson, Robert Louis