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
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
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
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
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
Not long before that, a 25-year-old Grove City, Ohio, woman was also gored.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2023
We spent the morning talking and looking at examples of trees gored by shedding antlers and branches snapped by lumbering bodies.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
In his new essay, he recounts the goring:
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2014
This would require a holistic overhaul of the educational system and the goring of many sacred cows.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 17, 2014
Even though goring accidents are common, few result in life-threatening injuries.
From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2014
“The inevitable result is either deficit spending or the goring of someone’s proverbial ox,” Dillon said.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 15, 2013
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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