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barbarity

[bahr-bar-i-tee] / bɑrˈbær ɪ ti /


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Ms. Elkayam-Levy is a hero who has given voice to the Israeli victims of Hamas’s barbarity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

"The automation and digitalisation of warfare leads to its gamification. This leads to degradation and sliding back of humanity to barbarity," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

"It is within our power to stop the war, to stop the barbarity, and to win rights," she said.

From Barron's ● Mar. 8, 2026

“If we cannot stand up to call it what it is — a monstrous act of barbarity — then we have lost the plot.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2023

We shall then agitate anew, and endeavor, through public meetings and the press, to exhibit the barbarity of refusing their humble request.

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by A Sexton of the Old School

Hudson, now 24, later apologised for the posts and called them "barbarities" and "dark humour".

From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2024

"Quino built the story with very human characters through the eyes of children, who say terrible barbarities with no filter," series director Lorena Munoz told Reuters.

From Reuters ● Sep. 26, 2023

Exceptions include the veteran British graphic artist Sue Coe, who finds focus for her classic Expressionism and her lifelong sorrow and anger at human barbarities.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 25, 2019

When we see people fighting against those barbarities, that is part and parcel of America too.

From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2019

Cavaliers and ladies fair reserve their choicest attire to grace these barbarities.

From Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates


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