gore
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I’ve no doubt that Head signed on to that gore circus for the fun of it and out of a desire to shake up his image yet again.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026
But Ali rejects the notion that audiences only want blood and gore.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 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
Classic is the first word you think of to describe this genre of horror film, with its quaint setting and relative lack of gore.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026
“Drawings, usually in color and very large, showing a matador with his cape, a bull trying to gore him.”
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
How that happens will depend on whose oxen are gored.
From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 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 July, a 47-year-old woman sustained significant injuries after being charged and gored by a bison.
From New York Times ● Jun. 5, 2024
Yet it happened every summer, and every summer some nitwit tourist got gored.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
The Park Service said Monday’s attack was the second case in the past month “of a visitor getting too close to the animal and the bison responding to the perceived threat by goring the individual.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 29, 2022
In his new essay, he recounts the goring:
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2014
This would require a holistic overhaul of the educational system and the goring of many sacred cows.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 17, 2014
Even though goring accidents are common, few result in life-threatening injuries.
From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2014
Out on the range, the horse had experienced everything, including a bull goring that had left a gouge in his rump.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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