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bloodletting

adjective as in gory

noun as in bloodshed

noun as in butchery

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The Epstein scandal may prove to be the tie that binds — or, to extend the metaphor, the first political bloodletting that has universal appeal since Nixon was expelled from the body politic.

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The horrendous bloodletting of World War I bloodletting removed all inhibitions against a total, violent resolution of social conflict.

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But the guns kept coming — and the bloodletting and mayhem grew.

Discovery come two days after the Walt Disney Co. implemented a bloodletting across its film and television marketing teams, television publicity, casting and development as well as corporate operations.

But the most worrisome development in all this bloodletting is how Kennedy’s antipathy toward vaccines is playing out.

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

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