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grisly

[griz-lee] / ˈgrɪz li /


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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

"I did think it was a bit grisly but I was mostly intrigued," he says.

From BBC Mar. 22, 2026

It was chief of all the horrors of the fen, and even the angry rats turned tail and fled when they saw its grisly head emerging.

From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye

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

Every day he made himself act like a regular brown bear, and every evening he would say, "I'll be a grislier old growler to-morrow."

From Tales from Dickens by Hallie Erminie Rives

“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

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

On Tuesday, both the press and public galleries were filled to capacity with an audience to what will likely be the grisliest day of trial expected to last for 15 days.

From Time Oct. 25, 2016

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




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