bloody
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In 1691 Schuyler distinguished himself during another bloody incursion into French territory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
She added: "I know I would have made a bloody good granny."
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
The Buddha, seeing him bruised, bloody, and weeping, smiles and tells him he must bear it.
From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2026
Ashley Hernandez, a Wilmington resident and organizer with the nonprofit Communities for a Better Environment, said bloody noses and noxious fumes were a regular part of life in the neighborhood growing up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
The press of a button and the screen changed from the bloody battle of the Alamo to the serene inside of Ford’s Theatre.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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Beloved in Italy, it anticipates “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” though its sense of humor is broader and its budget evidently bigger, with bloodier battles and cinematography that approaches the picturesque.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026
Police said the actions of that fourth officer likely spared the city from a bigger, bloodier attack.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 21, 2023
Their stories are little-known footnotes of Cold War history, but six American GIs provide possible roadmaps for his future — though a COVID-19-era development could be a benchmark for a bloodier outcome.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 19, 2023
They deliver a fifth “Scream” installment that’s even bloodier and just as winking and self-aware as its predecessors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2022
Without him France was a muddier and a bloodier place and the outside world more unreal than ever.
From The Rough Road by William John Locke
But the extremely strained relations between the two sides after nearly four years of Europe's bloodiest conflict since World War II have cast doubt over the prospect of direct Ukraine-Russia talks.
From Barron's ● Dec. 21, 2025
The unlikely diplomat trying to end Europe’s bloodiest war since 1945 speaks in golfing metaphors and long asides about the nature of capital markets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 20, 2025
This is his Pynchoniad, a zigzagging epic of America and the world through our bloodiest, most shameful hundred years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025
Steven Peters was deployed to Helmand Province in 2009, during a period which became known as the British Army’s bloodiest summer in more than 50 years.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2024
From then on, even in the bloodiest periods of the war, the two commanders would arrange truces to exchange prisoners.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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But the outlook for more than one team joining the Wildcats is growing bleaker by the week as the conference bloodies itself.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 12, 2024
And when the pope returns to Rome on Sunday, the country’s woes will remain, both in the violence that bloodies the land and in the treasure buried in the soil.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2023
But in creativity, knocking harder often just bloodies your knuckles.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 22, 2020
The son of a Yorkshire butcher, Bennett may be wishing against wish for a good honest job that bloodies the hands.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He never bloodies his sword but in heat of battle, and had rather save one of his own soldiers than kill ten of his enemies.
From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various
The ad featured the iconic photograph of Curran helping a bloodied Trump off the stage in Butler.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
After some 2,300 miles later, the walk ended this week in Washington, D.C., accompanied by images of worn shoes and battered, bloodied feet.
From Salon ● Feb. 13, 2026
Her organisation recently carried out a mission to the Bulgaria-Turkey border, where NGOs have documented cases of animals trapped for days or weeks, bringing back footage of bloodied livestock and cows giving birth beside trucks.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2025
She noticed her uncle’s feet were bloodied from walking on broken glass in sandals and he was staring off into the distance and appeared to be in a fog.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2025
She bound the least bloodied pieces around Lyddie’s head and tied them in place with a narrower strip.
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
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You have to applaud Hamrouni, in that moment and others, for literally bloodying the nose of the patriarchy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2023
Then at 5-3, while Raducanu was serving for the match, she slid on the court chasing a ball to her backhand side, bloodying her left knee.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 11, 2021
Descending after the first big drop, it was reported that a 10-pound goose suddenly materialized in front of Fabio's face, bloodying him and then expiring as a result of the midair collision.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2021
The sports world should have seen several more years of that Ali, opening jaws and bloodying lips, but two fights later, his 1,314 days in exile began.
From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2016
Deciding it would be better to stand the rest of the way than risk bloodying my nose, I rose to my feet and offered him my seat.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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