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But just as we wouldn’t expect Ted Lasso to solve a grisly homicide, we probably shouldn’t assume a Dick Wolf regular who isn’t Christopher Meloni can ham it up for a live audience.

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026

Carter says that when the original film was in production, he faced intense pressure to cut enough grisly material to get a PG-13 rating so the movie could reach as many people as possible.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026

It wouldn’t be fair to divulge its details to those who are unfamiliar with the grisly tale, because it provides “Kenrex” with a dramatically, not to mention emotionally, satisfying conclusion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

Burke’s family resisted being subpeoned to the grand jury and a court document from that legal battle revealed grisly details about what police found inside the Burke’s Tesla.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026

A grisly pale thing with black fingers, it was, that twitched and stirred in its jar as if it were still alive.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

The S&P 500 has lost 12 percent on the year, but Tesla has lost a much grislier 40 percent.

From Slate ● Apr. 22, 2025

Crime sensations come and go — some lost in memory, some trumped by grislier crimes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2024

Tate’s own children described a grislier scene inside the trailer.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 17, 2022

Walking through a bustling Montgomery Ward department store days before Christmas in 1972, he found inspiration for a grislier kind of movie in a display of gleaming chain saws.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 28, 2017

The Residency is a fine large building in an advanced stage of decomposition; the glorious vegetation around it—cotton-trees, caoutchouc-figs, and magnificent oleanders—making the pile look grimmer and grislier.

From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Sir Richard Francis Burton

“Yee’s play is a fierce, gorgeous, heartwarming, comedic fairy tale set against one of history’s grisliest mass extinctions,” wrote Margaret Gray in her review for The Times in 2018.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2024

His left leg — the one he fractured in three places, in perhaps the grisliest injury in Super Bowl history — is all healed.

From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2022

Still, the grisliest details are about how these botched investigations can lead to dubious results and months-long delays in death certificates, which take a toll on families.

From Slate ● May 20, 2019

Watson had just mentioned one of the grisliest parts of her rehabilitation after she tore her right anterior cruciate ligament and lateral meniscus in January: “the bending process.”

From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2018

Because of this cold reality, most jockeys would ride through virtually anything, and they shrugged off the grisliest injuries.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand