brutal
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To play Aemond, Mitchell looked at MMA and cage fighters to hone in on the character’s agile, brutal fighting style.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Ben Earl has called for a change to the Nations Championship format after England's "brutal" schedule in the summer leg of the inaugural competition.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Now the decade’s hottest IPO represents a brutal reality check.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
In a video released Wednesday, Hegseth discovered spoke of how “the modern battlefield is brutal and unrelenting” and “demands maximum psychological and mental readiness.”
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
And now those eyes were looking down at the last landscape they’d ever see: a barren slope of brutal tumbled rocks, and beyond it a forest on fire.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
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