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barbarity

[bahr-bar-i-tee] / bɑrˈbær ɪ ti /


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Ms. Elkayam-Levy is a hero who has given voice to the Israeli victims of Hamas’s barbarity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

"The automation and digitalisation of warfare leads to its gamification. This leads to degradation and sliding back of humanity to barbarity," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

But Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino said Sunday that "there is no justification whatsoever for the barbarity committed," calling it "an unforgivable act of irrationality."

From Barron's ● Dec. 28, 2025

The sheer barbarity of these scenes may explain why they haven’t garnered more attention.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2024

But in the case of animals which cannot resent barbarity, this foundation of self-interest does not for the most part75 exist.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Hudson, now 24, later apologised for the posts and called them "barbarities" and "dark humour".

From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2024

"Quino built the story with very human characters through the eyes of children, who say terrible barbarities with no filter," series director Lorena Munoz told Reuters.

From Reuters ● Sep. 26, 2023

Exceptions include the veteran British graphic artist Sue Coe, who finds focus for her classic Expressionism and her lifelong sorrow and anger at human barbarities.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 25, 2019

When we see people fighting against those barbarities, that is part and parcel of America too.

From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2019

Information being given to Congress of some outrages and wanton barbarities, committed on subjects of France by the enemy, on their landing in Virginia, the following resolutions were passed.

From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Volume X (of 12) by Various


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