violent
Example Sentences
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The protests in Iran appear to be the most widespread and violent since the revolution.
From Salon
Economists William Collins and Robert Margo studied the economic consequences of violent unrest more directly by comparing cities and neighborhoods that experienced major riots in the late 1960s with otherwise similar places that didn’t.
The reopened prison would “house America’s most ruthless and violent Offenders,” he said in a post on Truth Social.
It comes at a volatile moment for the relationship between the Horn of Africa neighbours, which share a fractious and violent history.
From BBC
She told reporters at the White House that conditions on the ground in Minneapolis were “violent.”
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