gore
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Writer-director Jacob Chase, who previously made the 2020 horror film “Come Play,” downplays gore in favor of jump scares and mildly diverting set pieces.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
But Ali rejects the notion that audiences only want blood and gore.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
This is Hollywood's latest horror film - Backrooms - and it knows its audience: one more drawn to whispered horror than A-list names, monsters and gore.
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
But “Is God Is” refuses to gussy up its allegories with too many special effects or gratuitous gore.
From Salon ● May 19, 2026
When I checked the window, T. Ray was coming out of the orchard toward the house, fists balled, head plowed forward like a bull wanting to gore something.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
How that happens will depend on whose oxen are gored.
From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026
They don’t really care about “the reasons” or how others were experiencing America, whose ox the past few decades was being gored.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026
The woman from Greenville, South Carolina, was gored by the animal June 1 near the Storm Point Trail at Yellowstone Lake, park officials said in a news release.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2024
Last weekend, an 83-year-old woman from South Carolina was gored by a bison that was defending its space, park officials said.
From New York Times ● Jun. 5, 2024
The steer who had been gored had gotten to his feet and stood against the stone wall.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
It’s true that Mamdani has a huge stake in diverting the Trump bull from goring New York.
From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2025
The Park Service said Monday’s attack was the second case in the past month “of a visitor getting too close to the animal and the bison responding to the perceived threat by goring the individual.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 29, 2022
Monday’s incident is the second goring by a bison in the park in the last month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2022
This would require a holistic overhaul of the educational system and the goring of many sacred cows.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 17, 2014
Out on the range, the horse had experienced everything, including a bull goring that had left a gouge in his rump.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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