gore
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“It’s not all the gore and horror stuff that everything else is,” Polizzi said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
I don’t think it’s entirely unfair to say that a large portion of the effusive response to “Obsession” has been from younger viewers getting their first taste of topical horror gore shocks.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 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 addition to grime, gore and disdain for governments, the ragtime gangsters of “Peaky Blinders” provided a minor education.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 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
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 July, a 47-year-old woman sustained significant injuries after being charged and gored by a bison.
From New York Times ● Jun. 5, 2024
Yet it happened every summer, and every summer some nitwit tourist got gored.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
The goring happened late Sunday at the Oland Animal and Entertainment Park on the southwestern island of Oland.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 29, 2022
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
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
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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