gore
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In August 2023, according to the release, Normandin-Parker’s friend, Luna Moore, got sick in the Uber and the driver, Vu Tran, stopped at a freeway gore point, the triangular area by the freeway’s off-ramp.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
I don’t think it’s entirely unfair to say that a large portion of the effusive response to “Obsession” has been from younger viewers getting their first taste of topical horror gore shocks.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
In fact the former reality TV star will be front and center throughout the gore and glitz, as he always is.
From Barron's ● Jun. 14, 2026
This is Hollywood's latest horror film - Backrooms - and it knows its audience: one more drawn to whispered horror than A-list names, monsters and gore.
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
When I checked the window, T. Ray was coming out of the orchard toward the house, fists balled, head plowed forward like a bull wanting to gore something.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
Five of the 57 injured are foreign nationals: two Britons, an Australian, an American and a German who was gored in his left arm.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
They don’t really care about “the reasons” or how others were experiencing America, whose ox the past few decades was being gored.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026
A bison was “defending its space” when it gored an 83-year-old tourist in Yellowstone National Park, officials said.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2024
Last weekend, an 83-year-old woman from South Carolina was gored by a bison that was defending its space, park officials said.
From New York Times ● Jun. 5, 2024
The steer who had been gored had gotten to his feet and stood against the stone wall.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
It’s true that Mamdani has a huge stake in diverting the Trump bull from goring New York.
From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2025
Monday’s incident is the second goring by a bison in the park in the last month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2022
Park officials say it’s the first reported bison goring this year.
From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2022
Even though goring accidents are common, few result in life-threatening injuries.
From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2014
"To quiet down the bulls and keep them from breaking horns against the stone walls, or goring each other."
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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