brutal
Example Sentences
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Yet again this season, just when it seemed as if Liverpool were making progress, they suffered a brutal defeat.
From BBC
That has been a brutal selloff of software stocks that has cost companies like Salesforce, Workday and ServiceNow more than one-quarter of their market capitalizations so far this year.
The prospect of a drawn-out war in the Middle East sparked a broad and brutal selloff on Tuesday, and one of the best trades of 2026 got hammered.
From Barron's
“It’s been a brutal wait. I got the first book the day it came out, a thousand years ago.”
From Literature
Yet he returned for the first time in October, almost a year to the day after longtime leader Bashar al-Assad was toppled in a lightning rebel offensive -- ending almost 14 years of brutal civil war.
From Barron's
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