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barbarity

[bahr-bar-i-tee] / bɑrˈbær ɪ ti /


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"The automation and digitalisation of warfare leads to its gamification. This leads to degradation and sliding back of humanity to barbarity," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

"No one cares about us", Najdi lamented, calling on "everyone who can to exert pressure to stop this barbarity".

From Barron's ● Mar. 24, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2024

He isn’t merely tormented by the barbarity of vampirism, which he refuses to indulge as far as that goes.

From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2022

Fearful as that annual barbarity was, I do not think that those kings should properly be called “bloodthirsty.”

From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Robert Hamill Nassau

Hudson, now 24, later apologised for the posts and called them "barbarities" and "dark humour".

From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2024

"Quino built the story with very human characters through the eyes of children, who say terrible barbarities with no filter," series director Lorena Munoz told Reuters.

From Reuters ● Sep. 26, 2023

Exceptions include the veteran British graphic artist Sue Coe, who finds focus for her classic Expressionism and her lifelong sorrow and anger at human barbarities.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 25, 2019

When we see people fighting against those barbarities, that is part and parcel of America too.

From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2019

It was evident that Spain was still ready, if in her opinion occasion required it, to have recourse to the barbarities of the old Inquisitorial days.

From Cuba Its Past, Present, and Future by Arthur D. Hall




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