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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

"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

The sheer barbarity of these scenes may explain why they haven’t garnered more attention.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2024

But think of the barbarity of all this!

From Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by Clara Louise Kellogg

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

I went over to England, where the same disputes occasioned the same barbarities.

From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by


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