gore
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Writer-director Jacob Chase, who previously made the 2020 horror film “Come Play,” downplays gore in favor of jump scares and mildly diverting set pieces.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
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
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
“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
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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
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
Not long before that, a 25-year-old Grove City, Ohio, woman was also gored.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2023
We spent the morning talking and looking at examples of trees gored by shedding antlers and branches snapped by lumbering bodies.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
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Monday’s incident is the second goring by a bison in the park in the last month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2022
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
Yes, the Chicago Brahmas were up to their usual goring tactics, trying to physically change the momentum of a series that was already slipping away from their proud palms.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 24, 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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