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gladiatorial

[glad-ee-uh-tawr-ee-uhl, -tohr-] / ˌglæd i əˈtɔr i əl, -ˈtoʊr- /






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Emperors competed with one another to put on larger and larger gladiatorial games, often to mark an anniversary of their rule or a military victory.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

The best that can be done, he holds, is to “construct a tentative program of gladiatorial training.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

No doubt football is suffused with gladiatorial bravado.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2024

It is gladiatorial – it is all Hardy knows.

From BBC • Oct. 1, 2024

Demons were perched all around me on derelict equipment and abandoned train cars like the audience of a gladiatorial match.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda