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“During my year long journey, I have discovered how cruel, evil and greedy a human can be,” she wrote, seemingly alluding to the legal battle but not naming her daughter-in-law.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

When the state was slow to act, conservative preachers’ sermons were cruel and much of the country looked away, these spaces helped people endure.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026

It also makes much clearer how hard the homesteaders had to work, how desperate they had to be to go west at all, and how cruel and harsh the conditions were.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

Yet few compare to the cruel manner that has brought Iran's tournament to an end in 2026.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026

The twins were as bad-tempered and cruel as Veronika was vain and insincere.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

To Valerie’s credit, she transformed her “Room and Bored” struggles into an Emmy-winning performance on its crueler version, “Seeing Red.”

From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2026

I recognize, of course, that life isn’t fair and that many families are grappling with circumstances far crueler than ours.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 22, 2025

Seven years later, the group has returned with sharper tools and a crueler edge, armed with a transformed legal and cultural landscape.

From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2025

He’s never done anything crueler than return a library book past due.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2025

He is crueler than von Linden, I think, enjoys it more, but has not v.L.’s genius or commitment.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

But at the same time, even under the cruelest dictatorships, it has still managed to produce fine literature.

From Barron's ● May 21, 2026

Eliot famously wrote that “April is the cruelest month.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 10, 2026

Some Wall Street analysts are insisting that April — contrary to its label as the cruelest month — is actually one of the better months for the U.S. stock market.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 1, 2026

Hunger has overtaken war as the cruelest weapon.

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2025

Whether even a heroic level of leadership stood any chance was uncertain because—and here was the cruelest irony—the effort to make the Revolution truly complete seemed diametrically opposed to remaining a united nation.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis