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barbarism

[bahr-buh-riz-uhm] / ˈbɑr bəˌrɪz əm /


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Mr. Berg, unlike Messrs. Spielberg and Gibson, shines a light on the barbarism and racism of some U.S. troops and the staggering number of civilian casualties.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

The Human Rights Commission of the Rio state legislature will demand "explanations" of how the favela was turned into a "theater of war and barbarism," commission head Dani Monteiro told AFP on Tuesday.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2025

It was taken in 1863 and reproduced across the North during the Civil War as an example of the barbarism of slavery.

From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2025

We often don’t want to think of the barbarism of the act, which is why slaughterhouses and factory farms are often located out in the middle of nowhere.

From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2024

An enraged President Reagan called the downing of Korean Airlines flight 007 "an act of barbarism."

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

Did/do they really believe they help patients with such barbarisms?

From Scientific American ● May 16, 2012

A big problem for me as a children's football coach, however, is that these cliches and verbal barbarisms are all too often directed at children.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 31, 2011

Denver's Gerald Kopel, a former newsman-turned-lawyer, crams his students by simulating actual exams and blasting bad spellers for such barbarisms as adultary, devorse, drunkedness.

From Time Magazine Archive

Whatever he did pales in comparison with the barbarisms of Khomeini.

From Time Magazine Archive

Andrew Jackson soon put an end to these English barbarisms wherever he commanded the American armies.

From The Battle of New Orleans including the Previous Engagements between the Americans and the British, the Indians and the Spanish which led to the Final Conflict on the 8th of January, 1815 by Z. F. (Zachariah Frederick) Smith


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