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gore

[gawr, gohr] / gɔr, goʊr /
NOUN
bloodshed
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Writer-director Jacob Chase, who previously made the 2020 horror film “Come Play,” downplays gore in favor of jump scares and mildly diverting set pieces.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

I don’t think it’s entirely unfair to say that a large portion of the effusive response to “Obsession” has been from younger viewers getting their first taste of topical horror gore shocks.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

But Ali rejects the notion that audiences only want blood and gore.

From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026

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

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

Five of the 57 injured are foreign nationals: two Britons, an Australian, an American and a German who was gored in his left arm.

From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 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

The goring happened late Sunday at the Oland Animal and Entertainment Park on the southwestern island of Oland.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 29, 2022

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

In his new essay, he recounts the goring:

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2014

Even though goring accidents are common, few result in life-threatening injuries.

From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 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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