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bloodstained

[bluhd-steynd] / ˈblʌdˌsteɪnd /


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Gory giveaway: A replica bloodstained jersey from a baseball great.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 11, 2026

Olsen cut the liver into small pieces, offering it with bloodstained fingers to friends and family gathered around the table.

From Barron's • Feb. 6, 2026

When the New York Times profiled Ms. Rodríguez as a “moderate,” a backlash erupted: Thousands on X ridiculed the paper for whitewashing her bloodstained record.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 6, 2026

But when, a month after I’d mailed in the bloodstained paper, my microplastics test results arrived, those small efforts suddenly felt meaningless.

From Slate • May 28, 2025

I was hustled out of the car and in through the front door with my mother still holding the bloodstained handerchief firmly over my wobbling nose.

From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl