brutal
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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
He arrived in the U.S. at age 19, just over two years after he was forced to join the Salvadoran army at the outbreak of the nation’s brutal civil war.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 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
"War is a brutal and unpredictable thing," he said at the press conference.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
The brutal era of sharecropping and Jim Crow was ending, but what followed was persistent unemployment and worsening poverty.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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