brutal
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Lee Chang-dong’s superb “Possible Love,” for instance, generates its explosively intimate finale by first investing us in the saga of strikers reeling from a brutal government crackdown.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
China’s exports are surging, turbocharged by the artificial-intelligence boom as well as a push by Chinese companies to sell their wares abroad to escape brutal price competition at home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
In an ordinary authoritarian state, however brutal, some independent institutions survive—be they a church, a temple, a nongovernmental organization—so long as they stay out of politics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
"Nine years after Daphne's brutal assassination, the institutional failures that enabled her murder remain unaddressed and unreformed," her family said in a statement reported by local media.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
The land was barren and brutal, and that was all most people saw.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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