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gory

[gawr-ee, gohr-ee] / ˈgɔr i, ˈgoʊr i /


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Despite the gory content, Alastair - who has been back at work for five-and-half months - admits he will probably watch his surgery again when the programme airs.

From BBC • May 6, 2026

Rather than recapitulate historical chronicles, Mr. Enrigue imagines the event from the Aztec point of view, creating an account that is gory, hallucinatory and thrilling in its strangeness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

Season 1 was surprisingly great — a gory but smart, richly developed retro-futuristic reflection of class conflict — and wound up being one of Prime Video’s most-watched shows ever.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 30, 2025

That pact to respect the dignity of the deceased, redolent of the old-school media environment, where gory films had to be sought out on LiveLeak, did not last.

From Slate • Sep. 12, 2025

The carving, to my taste, is beautifully done, as graphically elegant, despite the gory subject matter, as a Matisse.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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