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Power struggles, betrayal and bloody battles - these are the events shown in great detail in the Bayeux Tapestry, covering one of the most momentous periods in English history.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

This hasn’t survived two centuries of bloody revolution, lapsing religious faith and the catastrophic first half of the 20th century.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

What began as a trip to the nearest hospital for bloody diarrhea turned into a race to save his life as his kidneys started to fail.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

But hearing the crowd chant “USA, USA” as the bloody blows fell … well, let’s just say it was not everyone’s notion of a presidential birthday celebration.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026

And she knew Beowulf was quite talented at drawing; by now he had no doubt sketched a scale diagram of Buckingham Palace’s fluted columns and soothing symmetrical features, with no bloody claws to be seen.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

Beloved in Italy, it anticipates “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” though its sense of humor is broader and its budget evidently bigger, with bloodier battles and cinematography that approaches the picturesque.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026

The challenge of global order is that, hard as it is to preserve, it is harder and usually bloodier to piece together once lost.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 12, 2024

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

American officials feared a much bloodier outcome from likely clashes between Wagner forces moving north toward Moscow and Russian security personnel along the way, one senior U.S. military official said.

From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2023

It was the refrain from an older and bloodier field.

From A Soldier Of The Empire by Page, Thomas Nelson

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

But the extremely strained relations between the two sides after nearly four years of Europe's bloodiest conflict since World War II have cast doubt over the prospect of direct Ukraine-Russia talks.

From Barron's ● Dec. 21, 2025

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

Steven Peters was deployed to Helmand Province in 2009, during a period which became known as the British Army’s bloodiest summer in more than 50 years.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2024

More than seven decades have passed since the bloodiest war in history ended.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

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

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

Those pesky rivals from down south staggered away from their weekend stay at Dodger Stadium Sunday with spirits bruised, egos bloodied and Manny Machado flattened.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2025

She was not intending to remove the gauze, but as she loosened it, the heavy sterile towel beneath it slid away, taking a part of the bloodied dressing with it.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

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

When Fleck attended a Northern Illinois camp as a high schooler, Coach Joe Novak watched him grab every catchable ball, even the ones that meant bloodying his knees or elbows on the turf.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 5, 2019

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