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barbarity

[bahr-bar-i-tee] / bɑrˈbær ɪ ti /


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"Cauca cannot continue to face this barbarity alone," he wrote.

From BBC • Apr. 26, 2026

But Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino said Sunday that "there is no justification whatsoever for the barbarity committed," calling it "an unforgivable act of irrationality."

From Barron's • Dec. 28, 2025

The sheer barbarity of these scenes may explain why they haven’t garnered more attention.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2024

The Empire is ... crucially, subjects that go about their daily lives ignoring or enthusiastically supporting barbarity in the name of law and order, out of fear or simply for personal gain.

From Salon • Nov. 28, 2022

Which of our readers, at the present day, would submit to such unwarrantable barbarity?

From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by Dadd, George




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