bloodletting
Example Sentences
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For weeks, it looked like nothing would stop Wall Street’s bloodletting of software companies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
A 2020 Royal Commission found Gobbo's double life during a period of intense gang bloodletting in Australia's second-biggest city were "fundamental and appalling breaches" of her obligations as counsel to her clients.
From Barron's ● Feb. 5, 2026
Residents who were exposed to "forever chemicals" in Jersey should be offered treatments such as bloodletting to reduce levels of contamination in their bodies, doctors and scientists have advised the island's government.
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2025
Unfortunately — or fortunately, from Emil the goat and Lorne's point of view — he interrupts the bloodletting ceremony.
From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2025
Of course ‘made to work’ is a slippery concept: plenty of alchemists thought they had seen base metal turn into gold, and plenty of doctors thought they had cured their patients through bloodletting.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
