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
"Cauca cannot continue to face this barbarity alone," he wrote.
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 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
“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
Thine is a Bacon, hapless in his choice; Unfit to stand the civil storm of state, And through the smooth barbarity of courts, With firm but pliant virtue, forward still To urge his course.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various
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
The humane and conciliatory character of his government is also shown in his earnest efforts to atone for Danish barbarities in the past.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various
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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