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When the massive subduction zone lying under the Pacific Northwest shifts, it does so violently.

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Victorian audiences were repelled by Henrik Ibsen’s fatally attractive newlywed who appears to have it all — the fancy house, the doting husband — only to be violently bored.

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An Israeli couple who were abducted during the 7 October 2023 Hamas attacks have been reunited, two years after they were violently split up.

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So yeah, I just think people who are in the public eye have an experience inside of a social construct that is so violently unusual.

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"And it will happen quickly and perhaps violently."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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