violent
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Prosecuting barrister Nicholas Lobbenberg KC said Digwa had a "weapons obsession", adding that his depiction to police of Nowak as a "racist, drunk, violent aggressor compounds the natural grief and loss of the deceased's family".
From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026
There was a rhetorically violent disagreement between him and the others.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026
“Every headline effectively shifts probability between those two outcomes, which explains the violent day-to-day swings,” he told MarketWatch on Friday.
From MarketWatch • May 29, 2026
“There’s no way to be committed to nonviolence,” she said, “in the middle of the most violent society history has ever created.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
It took two days of harsh and violent storms to reach the island.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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