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bloody

[bluhd-ee] / ˈblʌd i /


ADJECTIVE
(used as intensifier)
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The sheer quantity of capital that has flowed into tech suggests that if and when investors decide a large-scale reappraisal is required, it is likely to be bloody.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Audio recorded on air traffic control details a pilot asking for medical help, describing "a bloody nose" and "some bite marks", according to CBS News, BBC's US News partner.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

To his supporters, Vucic represents stability, development and patriotism in a country long overshadowed by the bloody wars of the 1990s and the international isolation that followed.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

Just when you think you’ve made it through, the exhibition has one last gruesome touch: To escape, you have to push your way through a set of bloody butcher curtains.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

The tumult of 1848—the bloody populist revolutions that swept fiercely through France, Denmark, Germany, and Austria and overturned social, political, and religious orders—largely passed him by, like distant thunder.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Philippine-American War, as it became known, proved far bloodier than its precursor, especially once Aguinaldo turned to guerrilla tactics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2025

The bad news is that, now, the battle for best picture will be bloodier than ever.

From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2024

Police said the actions of that fourth officer likely spared the city from a bigger, bloodier attack.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 21, 2023

Their stories are little-known footnotes of Cold War history, but six American GIs provide possible roadmaps for his future — though a COVID-19-era development could be a benchmark for a bloodier outcome.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 19, 2023

Without him France was a muddier and a bloodier place and the outside world more unreal than ever.

From The Rough Road by William John Locke

Inspired by Khalra's life, the film follows an activist investigating alleged human rights abuses during Punjab's separatist insurgency, one of the bloodiest chapters in modern Indian history.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

It was a key chapter in the road to independence in 1963, and the British response was one of the bloodiest episodes in its colonial history.

From Barron's ● Feb. 14, 2026

The bloodiest crisis in Iran’s recent political history started in a conservative bastion: Tehran’s market area.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

Although this may have been the bloodiest incident involving American tourists at the historic monument, it is far from the first.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2025

Called “Operation Judgment” by the Germans, the Battle of Verdun would become the longest battle of World War I and one of the bloodiest ever fought.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

But the outlook for more than one team joining the Wildcats is growing bleaker by the week as the conference bloodies itself.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 12, 2024

And when the pope returns to Rome on Sunday, the country’s woes will remain, both in the violence that bloodies the land and in the treasure buried in the soil.

From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2023

But in creativity, knocking harder often just bloodies your knuckles.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 22, 2020

The son of a Yorkshire butcher, Bennett may be wishing against wish for a good honest job that bloodies the hands.

From Time Magazine Archive

He never bloodies his sword but in heat of battle, and had rather save one of his own soldiers than kill ten of his enemies.

From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various

Ian Wright hit the post and Italy's Christian Vieri flashed a late header just wide, but the game is arguably most remembered for images of Paul Ince's bloodied shirt and head bandage.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

The ad featured the iconic photograph of Curran helping a bloodied Trump off the stage in Butler.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026

The winner of this primary might have earned little more than a third of the vote, and will enter the fall’s general election bloodied from high-profile slings and arrows from their own side.

From Salon ● Jan. 11, 2026

Her organisation recently carried out a mission to the Bulgaria-Turkey border, where NGOs have documented cases of animals trapped for days or weeks, bringing back footage of bloodied livestock and cows giving birth beside trucks.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2025

“I thought I was grounded,” I said nasally, and plucked out my bloodied nose plugs.

From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos

But she neglected to place them clear of the steps, as we discovered when my husband tripped over them later in the evening while he was taking out the trash, bloodying his knees.

From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2023

You have to applaud Hamrouni, in that moment and others, for literally bloodying the nose of the patriarchy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2023

Then at 5-3, while Raducanu was serving for the match, she slid on the court chasing a ball to her backhand side, bloodying her left knee.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 11, 2021

Luckily for chefs who are squeamish about bloodying their hands, the British supermarket chain Marks and Spencer has begun selling a safety-conscious “cocktail avocado,” which has softer skin and no pit.

From Slate ● Dec. 10, 2017

There, among more grain silos and a just-passed threat of a tornado, she twisted her ankle and tumbled onto the road, bloodying her palms and knees.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti


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