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barbarity

[bahr-bar-i-tee] / bɑrˈbær ɪ ti /


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"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

He isn’t merely tormented by the barbarity of vampirism, which he refuses to indulge as far as that goes.

From Salon Nov. 13, 2022

That untutored genius, so striking in the boldness and brilliancy of its creations, but which more frequently repels through its own native barbarity, was eminently the genius of Crebillon.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 by Various

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

Thus twenty years had been wasted, the best blood of Germany squandered, the worst barbarities of war renewed, and Frederick, after enduring shame and humiliation, had not attained one of his haughty personal aims.

From A History of Germany From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Bayard Taylor




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