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If I may say so, the great hecatomb of pigs you describe on farm has not taken place.

From BBC

This, in a nutshell, is the catastrophic and unprecedented hecatomb that Brazil found itself locked in by mid-April 2021.

“They get caught and I think it’s very good there is a hecatomb right now. It shows that things are being done for a cleaner sport.”

But amid the ensuing hecatomb of the Tet Offensive four years later, LBJ announced he would not run for a second term.

From BBC

Unbeknown to them, Mr. Renzi writes, the liberal leaders were sitting “in a hecatomb.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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