bloody

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Those from north of Paris and south of Brussels did the digging, ploughing, assembling and many of them the fighting, on these fields which saw such bloody battles.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026

The restaurant also serves a toddler-approved Dutch baby and a parent-approved bloody Mary, she adds.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026

"This is the first hurdle but we bloody did it and I truly believe that together we are going to make change."

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2026

“Forces loyal to the absent Shah of Iran swept iron-willed, weepy old Premier Mohammed Mossadegh out of power today with a bloody nine-hour coup,” the Associated Press wrote Aug. 20, 1953.

From Barron's • Mar. 5, 2026

He would later recall the lesson he had learned in that bloody valley: “There is nothing more necessary than good Intelligence to frustrate a designing enemy, & nothing that requires greater pains to obtain.”

From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen