gladiatorial
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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 important point,” Mr. Sidebottom notes, “is the Romans unanimously believed another people had invented gladiatorial fights.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
The gladiatorial stadium stands between England and parity in the Ashes series.
From BBC • Dec. 2, 2025
But we aren’t going to get it as long as we indulge the rhetorical gladiatorial fantasies of the “Debate Me” Bros.
From Salon • Sep. 17, 2025
So did Dorothy Fowler, who fumed to a visitor one day, “This community doesn’t want academic excellence. It wants a gladiatorial spectacle on a Friday night.”
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
