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Recent Examples of barbarism
Decades of Palestinian barbarism have eroded the pity reserves of a majority of the Israeli people.
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Uri Kurlianchik, National Review, 25 Feb. 2025
For instance, the surprising details of Liat’s capture fly in the face of the tales of barbarism the subjects have been told.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 24 Feb. 2025
As Shakespeare keenly understood, when the individual is allowed to trounce the collective, the result isn’t freedom but barbarism.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2025
The journalists traveled to Haiti to show the grim extent of the devastation and barbarism wrought by the gang warfare that has sown chaos in the country’s capital, Port-au-Prince.
—Katie Robertson, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
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Uri Kurlianchik, National Review, 25 Feb. 2025
For instance, the surprising details of Liat’s capture fly in the face of the tales of barbarism the subjects have been told.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 24 Feb. 2025
As Shakespeare keenly understood, when the individual is allowed to trounce the collective, the result isn’t freedom but barbarism.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2025
The journalists traveled to Haiti to show the grim extent of the devastation and barbarism wrought by the gang warfare that has sown chaos in the country’s capital, Port-au-Prince.
—Katie Robertson, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for barbarism
Noun
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Other detainees at Stewart have helped Maria connect with a lawyer because of her illiteracy.—
Billal Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 May 2025
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The spending disparity ignored the circumstances of many of the countries receiving this aid: people did not have enough to eat, and rates of illiteracy were as high as 90%.—
Made by History,
Time,
23 Apr. 2025
Noun
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But this also speaks to the ignorance of those doing the projecting, who disregarded (in the case of Documenta 15) the complexities and nuances of Indonesian art, cultural policy, and history over the past thirty years.—
Diedrich Diederichsen,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
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One of the key themes of Part II is the fact that everyone is only seeing things from their perspective; all these characters who are suffering loss and passing that suffering on to others are doing so in ignorance.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
27 May 2025
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