cruelty
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“It’s devastating, the amount of cruelty that we’re seeing ... and a lot of the people that are in detention centers are workers,” Huerta said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
He called on him to quit and injected further tales of alleged cruelty into the discussion.
From Slate ● Aug. 8, 2026
"We're talking about academia here. I didn't murder somebody. I think the cruelty that I've experienced and the positioning of me as this kind of liar and fantasist is totally unacceptable," he told the newspaper.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
“You will not face this cruelty alone. This administration will stand alongside immigrant New Yorkers today, tomorrow, and every day that follows.”
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026
Sissy was shocked when she heard this story of starvation and cruelty.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
I remember thinking her diatribe about the injustice of Hester Prynne’s shunning would segue into the cruelties Charles faced with the goal of inspiring someone to defy the blacklist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
From a young age, even in the glitter of 1990s excess, I lived at odds with the cruelties of empire.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2025
But he also pointed to the cruelties of man.
From BBC ● May 13, 2024
Efron embodies all of these contradictions in his performance as Kevin, a naïf who becomes too familiar with life’s cruelties.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2023
But Ophie already realized what it likely was, and was moving toward the window, the cousins and their petty cruelties forgotten for the moment.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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