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Another way of contextualizing the scale of the bloodletting is the war in Gaza, the bloodiest round of fighting between Israel and Palestinian terrorists since the latter’s war of independence in 1948.
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Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 5 Dec. 2025
This month’s stock market losses won’t be the last of the bloodletting, according to Raymond James.
—Sarah Min, CNBC, 25 Nov. 2025
Much bloodletting, and a whole lotta rockin', ensues.
—Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Oct. 2025
Ultimately the inevitable showdown between Hutch and the Queen Bee that Stone embodies also works, not just for the inventive bloodletting, but also the LOL lunacy of it all.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 13 Aug. 2025
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Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 5 Dec. 2025
This month’s stock market losses won’t be the last of the bloodletting, according to Raymond James.
—Sarah Min, CNBC, 25 Nov. 2025
Much bloodletting, and a whole lotta rockin', ensues.
—Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Oct. 2025
Ultimately the inevitable showdown between Hutch and the Queen Bee that Stone embodies also works, not just for the inventive bloodletting, but also the LOL lunacy of it all.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 13 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloodletting
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Authoritarianism, rule by force and revolutions with bloodshed are the norms.—
Stephen Mitchell,
Baltimore Sun,
2 Apr. 2026
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The massacre is just the latest bloodshed in a nation that has been left reeling by spiraling gang warfare for five years following the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
29 Mar. 2026
Noun
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OpenAI is now facing seven wrongful-death lawsuits, which allege that ChatGPT prompted several suicides and a murder.—
Ronan Farrow,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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Using the text as a base, this piece tells the story of an unlikely bond — a ship’s Captain harboring a stowaway accused of murder —through a mix of words, dance, music, sound, and art installation.—
Jed Gottlieb,
Boston Herald,
5 Apr. 2026
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The slaughter of hundreds of our service members with roadside bombs.—
James Powel,
USA Today,
2 Apr. 2026
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Now amid the Greeley strike and other slaughter plant capacity reductions — including the closure of a major Tyson Foods’ plant in Nebraska — JBS and other companies are seeing profits increase, Martin said.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
27 Mar. 2026
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Their annual festive holiday gift exchange spirals into a cutthroat game of Christmas carnage.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
2 Apr. 2026
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That’s not surprising considering the carnage in enterprise software stocks on AI disruption fears.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
31 Mar. 2026
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The night of the killing On the night of Sunday, March 9, 1941, Funk took Welsh to the final performance of the Police Circus at Municipal Auditorium, a benefit put on by the Hamid-Morton Circus to support the Kansas City Police Department.—
Patrick Salland,
Kansas City Star,
7 Apr. 2026
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Meanwhile, prosecutors are in plea talks with a third man charged in Mizell's killing, prosecutors and his lawyers told the judge in a March 12 letter.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
6 Apr. 2026
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Ghaemi said that this language was reminiscent of the propaganda that helped fuel and justify other historic atrocities, such as the massacres in Myanmar or Rwanda.—
Cora Engelbrecht,
New Yorker,
3 Apr. 2026
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And Glocks have been the killing machine of choice in some of America’s most horrifying massacres, including Virginia Tech in 2007, which left 33 dead, including the gunman, and the shooting at Borderline Bar and Grill in California in November 2018, where a gunman killed 13 people, then himself.—
Simon Akam,
Vanity Fair,
2 Apr. 2026
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The slaying stemmed from an ongoing gang dispute, police said at the time of Hamilton’s arrest.—
Staff Report,
Hartford Courant,
31 Mar. 2026
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After freeing a man who was convicted in a pizza delivery driver’s slaying, the state’s Parole Board has rejected releasing an accomplice who fatally stabbed the food courier.—
Rick Sobey,
Boston Herald,
28 Mar. 2026
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Amid rising grocery costs, American shoppers are searching for inventive ways to save, like buying meat in bulk and taking on the butchery at home.—
Kelly McCarthy,
ABC News,
6 Mar. 2026
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Vespaio was one of the first restaurants in the region to engage in whole animal butchery and even kept its own herb garden on the property.—
Matthew Odam,
Austin American Statesman,
27 Feb. 2026
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“Bloodletting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloodletting. Accessed 7 Apr. 2026.
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