barbarism
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“Whoever ordered and committed this barbarism will pay for it,” vowed Zacatecas Gov. David Monreal, a member of Mexico’s ruling Morena political bloc.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
When World War I arrived, Galsworthy—like many humane Europeans of his generation who had believed that mass barbarism was becoming a thing of the past—was shattered.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
The Human Rights Commission of the Rio state legislature will demand "explanations" of how the favela was turned into a "theater of war and barbarism," commission head Dani Monteiro told AFP on Tuesday.
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2025
It was taken in 1863 and reproduced across the North during the Civil War as an example of the barbarism of slavery.
From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2025
"Sheer barbarism," he said, watching the bartender and lowering his voice to a whisper.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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Did/do they really believe they help patients with such barbarisms?
From Scientific American ● May 16, 2012
A big problem for me as a children's football coach, however, is that these cliches and verbal barbarisms are all too often directed at children.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 31, 2011
Whatever he did pales in comparison with the barbarisms of Khomeini.
From Time Magazine Archive
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His writings have charged the West with soulless materialism and his fellow Africans with barbarisms and corruption.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Vocal cries are of a much larger extent, and indeed so full of incongruities and barbarisms, that we appear a distracted city to foreigners, who do not comprehend the meaning of such enormous outcries.
From A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern by Charles Hindley