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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A town in the Basque region of north-central Spain northeast of Bilbao. Its April 1937 bombing by German planes during the Spanish Civil War inspired one of Picasso's most famous paintings.
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Examples
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To me, Guernica is a perfect illustration of the power of Modernism.
Archive 2005-02-01 Hal Duncan 2005
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To me, Guernica is a perfect illustration of the power of Modernism.
What Is Style? Hal Duncan 2005
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The Spanish Civil War was also an example of total war, where the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica by the Legión Cóndor, as depicted by Pablo Picasso in Guernica, foreshadowed episodes of World War II such as the bombing campaign on Britain by the Nazis and the bombing of Dresden by the Allies.
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It’s vitriolic and furious — "Palestine’s Guernica" is half of the title — and shouldn’t surprise anyone.
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How can anyone say that Picasso’s Guernica is not art?
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How can anyone say that Picasso’s Guernica is not art?
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Random's horse reared and neighed, massive, apocalyptic, instantly recalling Guernica to my mind.
Sign of the Unicorn Zelazny, Roger 1975
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This was bad news for a Basque city called Guernica and 1500 or 6000 or 16,000 of it's inhabitants.
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This was bad news for a Basque city called Guernica and 1500 or 6000 or 16,000 of it's inhabitants.
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This was bad news for a Basque city called Guernica and 1500 or 6000 or 16,000 of it's inhabitants.
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