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gore

[gawr, gohr] / gɔr, goʊr /
NOUN
bloodshed
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In August 2023, according to the release, Normandin-Parker’s friend, Luna Moore, got sick in the Uber and the driver, Vu Tran, stopped at a freeway gore point, the triangular area by the freeway’s off-ramp.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

Animations projected on the wall accompany the tapestry, zooming in on details and key events and characters in the artwork, which is replete with gore and drama.

From Barron's ● Sep. 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

In horror, more is more — more gore, more jump scares, more shadowed silhouettes; all in service of scaring the viewer.

From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2026

About the feet of the Hornrock it wound, and flowed then in a gully through the midst of a wide green gore, sloping gently down from Helm’s Gate to Helm’s Dike.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

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

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 July, a 47-year-old woman sustained significant injuries after being charged and gored by a bison.

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 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

Park officials say it’s the first reported bison goring this year.

From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2022

In his new essay, he recounts the goring:

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 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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