savagery
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Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, said: "The unspeakable savagery and terror of 7 October must never happen again."
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
And yet out of all the savagery and destruction, Mr. Winder asserts, also came the distinctive intermingling of customs, cultures and ideas that marked the future of all three river regions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Only Valerie and those who get an intimate look can see the casual savagery in Warhol’s practice.
From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2026
Few if any of even Kim Jong-un’s looniest tirades match these posts for their wild-eyed savagery.
From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2026
She is rich but decadent, a writhing vipers’ nest of savagery and toxic allure.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
“Their professional dominance came in part from their command of the intimate daily savageries of the slave trade,” Rothman writes.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2021
Far beyond Syria, as well, many millions of people bear indelible memories of the conflict’s multifarious savageries, thanks to the numbing barrage of videos that have been posted on Facebook and Twitter and YouTube.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 3, 2017
Eventually he old brutal arrangement was superseded by the laws of the tate, which undertook to end the freelance savageries of personal revenge by meting out justice uncomplicated by private passion.
From Time Magazine Archive
She even endured the Dantean savageries of Filene's basement on a Saturday morning.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the polite landsman first hears it from the gaunt Nantucketer, he is apt to set it down as one of the whaleman's self-derived savageries.
From Moby Dick: or, the White Whale by Herman Melville
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