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savagery

[sav-ij-ree] / ˈsæv ɪdʒ ri /


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And yet out of all the savagery and destruction, Mr. Winder asserts, also came the distinctive intermingling of customs, cultures and ideas that marked the future of all three river regions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Della Cruz’s stirring Ninoy standing tall against the patriarchal savagery of Renfro’s Ferdinand and the petty vindictiveness of Acasio’s well-drawn Imelda is a powerful call to action.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026

"We're not going to allow this kind of savagery to destroy our society anymore," Trump said at a memorandum-signing in the Oval Office.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2025

It was hard to look at the savagery of, for example, Selma—as most Americans did, in photographs and on television—and not see what was wrong.

From Slate ● May 19, 2025

She is rich but decadent, a writhing vipers’ nest of savagery and toxic allure.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

“Their professional dominance came in part from their command of the intimate daily savageries of the slave trade,” Rothman writes.

From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2021

Far beyond Syria, as well, many millions of people bear indelible memories of the conflict’s multifarious savageries, thanks to the numbing barrage of videos that have been posted on Facebook and Twitter and YouTube.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 3, 2017

After victory we began by seeking to punish the Germans for Hitler's savageries and to help the British for having defended freedom's way for all people.

From Time Magazine Archive

Eventually he old brutal arrangement was superseded by the laws of the tate, which undertook to end the freelance savageries of personal revenge by meting out justice uncomplicated by private passion.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was under the obsession of one of his savageries.

From The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1 by Rupert Hughes


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