bloodletting

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Recent Examples of bloodletting The latter refers to the sectarian bloodletting that followed Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein’s removal. Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024 Colonists abandoned once promising agricultural settlements, and, in an act of cruel, retaliatory bloodletting, Périer ordered the massacre of the Chaouacha, an innocent tribe uninvolved in the revolt. Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Nov. 2024 Kyle Dubas, the Penguins’ president of hockey operations, might not be planning the same kind of bloodletting. Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2024 But that doesn’t mean the bloodletting is over, at least at Sony. Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for bloodletting
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Noun
  • On his last full day as president, Joe Biden celebrated as a temporary truce between Israel and Hamas officially took effect, raising hopes that months of bloodshed in the Gaza Strip were finally coming to an end.
    Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Getting there, though, requires a bit of bloodshed.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 24 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Among the editions that helped The Observer earn a top-10 designation were cover stories on the 40th anniversary of the Sweet 16, on the 25th anniversary of the Rae Carruth murder trial, on Johnson C. Smith football, and a feature package on National Girls and Women in Sports Day.
    Observer staff report, Charlotte Observer, 3 Mar. 2025
  • This comes as police killings have also long raised concerns from the public, most notably leading to massive Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests in 2020 following the death of George Floyd by Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who was convicted of his murder.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The site of the slaughter in the novel is called Camp Patience.
    Fintan O’Toole, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.
    Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 21 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • When Mohammed Shami spilled a caught and bowled attempt off his leading edge with the first legitimate ball of the match, Indian fears of a century of carnage multiplied.
    Tim Ellis, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Meanwhile wanted to find out whether an emergency operation like the one mounted by the Obama administration that successfully put down a 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa would be possible after Musk’s carnage.
    Stephen Collinson, CNN, 1 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Last month 10 former New York corrections employees were indicted in the killing of Robert Brooks, an inmate violently beaten while handcuffed in a prison infirmary in December.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Migrant arrivals at the U.S. border are at their lowest in years, and last week, Mexico extradited 29 cartel figures to the U.S., including the man involved in the 1985 killing of a DEA agent.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • A week after the massacre, two hundred soldiers and six hundred and fifty Chinese miners arrived in Rock Springs.
    Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Additionally, a camera operator on the doc appears to have shown support on social media for the Oct. 7 massacre in 2023, when Hamas killed around 1,200 people.
    Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • This week’s must reads Inside the mysterious slaying of a Hollywood pimp with Russian mob tattoos: Allan Roshanski and Ruslan Magomedgadzhiev were gunned down in Lomita in 2020.
    Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Law enforcement authorities allege he is connected to the slaying of Juan Jesus Guerrero-Chapa, the former personal attorney for a cartel leader.
    Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Chef Stephen Peak sources 90 percent of ingredients from the on-site greenhouse and gardens, and staffers practice whole-animal butchery, make their own cheese and charcuterie, bake their own bread, and preserve and ferment seasonal produce.
    Nicholas DeRenzo, AFAR Media, 27 Dec. 2024
  • The Devonshire is made up of four floors: butchery and cellar in the basement; the pub and by invitation-only green room on the ground level, with the restaurant and main kitchen on floor one followed by the Claret Room, the pub’s largest room on the second floor along with the terrace.
    Hikmat Mohammed, WWD, 10 Dec. 2024

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