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barbarity

[bahr-bar-i-tee] / bɑrˈbær ɪ ti /


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"No one cares about us", Najdi lamented, calling on "everyone who can to exert pressure to stop this barbarity".

From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026

“If we cannot stand up to call it what it is — a monstrous act of barbarity — then we have lost the plot.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2023

"What is missing to criminalize these people? And punish the clubs sportively? Why don't the sponsors charge La Liga? Don't the televisions bother to broadcast this barbarity every weekend?" he said.

From BBC • May 22, 2023

The Empire is ... crucially, subjects that go about their daily lives ignoring or enthusiastically supporting barbarity in the name of law and order, out of fear or simply for personal gain.

From Salon • Nov. 28, 2022

It is not long since Pius said to a French Bishop, “It would be barbarity on my part to want to keep the Bishops here in July.”

From Letters From Rome on the Council by D?llinger, Johann Joseph Ignaz von




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