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barbarism

[bahr-buh-riz-uhm] / ˈbɑr bəˌrɪz əm /


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He’s uniquely responsible for ushering in an age of barbarism and will spend the rest of his life making amends in the fallen world he helped create.

From Salon Jul. 21, 2026

When the German philosopher Theodor W. Adorno doubted the possibility of poetry after Auschwitz, Celan replied with the asperity of one who knew where barbarism had lodged.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 5, 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

As European nation-states descended into industrial-scale barbarism in the second half of the 1930s, musicians in these countries were placed in a difficult position.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

His writings have charged the West with soulless materialism and his fellow Africans with barbarisms and corruption.

From Time Magazine Archive

In an address at Harvard University, Secretary of State George Shultz lamented that "the day has not yet arrived when terrorism has taken its place among other vanquished barbarisms of our time."

From Time Magazine Archive

The man's sheer sick of courts and barbarisms, and he's in search of a healthy, independent life, which he needs, I'm thinking.

From Hurricane Island by H. B. Marriott (Henry Brereton Marriott) Watson




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