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gore

[gawr, gohr] / gɔr, goʊr /
NOUN
bloodshed
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This year, the company is expanding a safety tool so it blocks gore or violent images sent to kids via messages.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 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

And now, just shy of his 40th birthday, Coogler is an Oscar winner, for best original screenplay for horror period piece "Sinners," an unlikely mash-up of racial segregation, Southern blues and vampire-fueled gore.

From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026

In horror, more is more — more gore, more jump scares, more shadowed silhouettes; all in service of scaring the viewer.

From Salon • Mar. 15, 2026

I took my head off his shoulder for a moment to get a break from the gore and watched Augustus watch the movie.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green




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