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gore

[gawr, gohr] / gɔr, goʊr /
NOUN
bloodshed
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This is Hollywood's latest horror film - Backrooms - and it knows its audience: one more drawn to whispered horror than A-list names, monsters and gore.

From BBC May 29, 2026

But “Is God Is” refuses to gussy up its allegories with too many special effects or gratuitous gore.

From Salon May 19, 2026

And now, just shy of his 40th birthday, Coogler is an Oscar winner, for best original screenplay for horror period piece "Sinners," an unlikely mash-up of racial segregation, Southern blues and vampire-fueled gore.

From Barron's Mar. 16, 2026

“Don’t Talk About Joe Mac” is much more than a true-crime gore fest that reveals where the bodies are buried.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 9, 2026

About the feet of the Hornrock it wound, and flowed then in a gully through the midst of a wide green gore, sloping gently down from Helm’s Gate to Helm’s Dike.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

How that happens will depend on whose oxen are gored.

From Barron's Apr. 10, 2026

They don’t really care about “the reasons” or how others were experiencing America, whose ox the past few decades was being gored.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 15, 2026

A 47-year-old woman was gored by a bison in 2023 when she turned to walk away from it in Yellowstone National Park, officials said.

From Seattle Times Jun. 6, 2024

Last July, a 47-year-old woman sustained significant injuries after being charged and gored by a bison.

From New York Times Jun. 5, 2024

We spent the morning talking and looking at examples of trees gored by shedding antlers and branches snapped by lumbering bodies.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

It’s true that Mamdani has a huge stake in diverting the Trump bull from goring New York.

From Salon Nov. 26, 2025

The Park Service said Monday’s attack was the second case in the past month “of a visitor getting too close to the animal and the bison responding to the perceived threat by goring the individual.”

From Washington Post Jun. 29, 2022

Park officials say it’s the first reported bison goring this year.

From Seattle Times May 31, 2022

In his new essay, he recounts the goring:

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2014

"To quiet down the bulls and keep them from breaking horns against the stone walls, or goring each other."

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway




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