barbarism
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“Whoever ordered and committed this barbarism will pay for it,” vowed Zacatecas Gov. David Monreal, a member of Mexico’s ruling Morena political bloc.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
He’s uniquely responsible for ushering in an age of barbarism and will spend the rest of his life making amends in the fallen world he helped create.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
When World War I arrived, Galsworthy—like many humane Europeans of his generation who had believed that mass barbarism was becoming a thing of the past—was shattered.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
The Human Rights Commission of the Rio state legislature will demand "explanations" of how the favela was turned into a "theater of war and barbarism," commission head Dani Monteiro told AFP on Tuesday.
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2025
Compared to the other tragedies, which were dominated by recognizable principles of justice no matter how harsh, it was a triumph of barbarism over reason: dark, chaotic, inexplicable.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
Did/do they really believe they help patients with such barbarisms?
From Scientific American ● May 16, 2012
A big problem for me as a children's football coach, however, is that these cliches and verbal barbarisms are all too often directed at children.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 31, 2011
His writings have charged the West with soulless materialism and his fellow Africans with barbarisms and corruption.
From Time Magazine Archive
In an address at Harvard University, Secretary of State George Shultz lamented that "the day has not yet arrived when terrorism has taken its place among other vanquished barbarisms of our time."
From Time Magazine Archive
A dictionary of barbarisms too might be collected from some wretched neologists, whose pens are now at work!
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli
