gruesome
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Hill, who is recovering after suffering a gruesome season-ending knee injury last September, was among three players released by the team.
From Barron's • Feb. 17, 2026
There are also concerns about the gruesome foot blisters that hampered Djokovic.
From BBC • Jan. 29, 2026
Our glamorous and gruesome history is all there in a close-up of “Chinatown’s” Jack Nicholson: a movie star with a mutilated nose.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2026
At its peak, there were over 6,000 Shakers, joining Ann in rebuking the gruesome, incalculable evils of war and preaching moral generosity.
From Salon • Dec. 27, 2025
But we bombarded Mr. Dussel with questions, and the stories he had to tell were so gruesome and dreadful that we can’t get them out of our heads.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
Vocabulary lists containing gruesome
The Devil's Arithmetic
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