gore
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This year, the company is expanding a safety tool so it blocks gore or violent images sent to kids via messages.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 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
And now, just shy of his 40th birthday, Coogler is an Oscar winner, for best original screenplay for horror period piece "Sinners," an unlikely mash-up of racial segregation, Southern blues and vampire-fueled gore.
From Barron's ● Mar. 16, 2026
She is joined, yet again, by Courteney Cox’s intrusive newscaster, Gale Weathers, who is in all seven films and is meant to serve as a satiric commentary on journalism’s obsession with blood and gore.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
“Drawings, usually in color and very large, showing a matador with his cape, a bull trying to gore him.”
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
Five of the 57 injured are foreign nationals: two Britons, an Australian, an American and a German who was gored in his left arm.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 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
A 47-year-old woman was gored by a bison in 2023 when she turned to walk away from it in Yellowstone National Park, officials said.
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
“I never met him,” said Sir Bliant “It was proved that Lancelot ran mad in his shirt and breeches, until he got gored by a wild boar and died in a hermitage.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
It’s true that Mamdani has a huge stake in diverting the Trump bull from goring New York.
From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2025
The goring happened late Sunday at the Oland Animal and Entertainment Park on the southwestern island of Oland.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 29, 2022
In his new essay, he recounts the goring:
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2014
Even though goring accidents are common, few result in life-threatening injuries.
From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2014
"To quiet down the bulls and keep them from breaking horns against the stone walls, or goring each other."
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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