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gore

[gawr, gohr] / gɔr, goʊr /
NOUN
bloodshed
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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

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

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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