barbarity
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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
"No one cares about us", Najdi lamented, calling on "everyone who can to exert pressure to stop this barbarity".
From Barron's ● Mar. 24, 2026
The sheer barbarity of these scenes may explain why they haven’t garnered more attention.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2024
"What is missing to criminalize these people? And punish the clubs sportively? Why don't the sponsors charge La Liga? Don't the televisions bother to broadcast this barbarity every weekend?" he said.
From BBC ● May 22, 2023
It is a sufficiently bad offence, if not an actual iniquity, to bring well-to-do people into public derision through an act of flagrant thoughtlessness and unparalleled social barbarity.
From A Bride from the Bush by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
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
From the clouds to the earth Nature was busy marshalling her atoms, and putting to shame by the beauty of her structures the comparative barbarities of Art.
From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by John Tyndall
Vocabulary lists containing barbarity
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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"Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife," Vocabulary from the literary criticism
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"The Iliad" by Homer, Book 22
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