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  • noun Plural form of bloodbath.

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Examples

  • Thai police are tough on security, but are eager to avoid the kind of bloodbaths that have happened in protest crackdowns in the past.

    CNN Transcript Oct 17, 2003 2003

  • To those who have suffered from racism in this country, it would seem beside the point as well as heartless for scholars to engage in a body-count ” to compare racial violence in America with the "horrors of genocide" and the "millions of corpses" in Germany, the "mass killings between Islamic and Hindu people," and the "bloodbaths" in Cambodia.

    America the Bad? Takaki, Ronald T. 1980

  • The festival's films were eclectic on steroids -- art house and stomp house, a few fruitcakes with a slew of bloodbaths, absolutely no dialogue and nothing but dialogue.

    Stewart Nusbaumer: Royal Flush Festival: One of a Strange Kind Stewart Nusbaumer 2010

  • There's also no telling beforehand which books will be minor hits, and which will be economic bloodbaths for their publisher.

    MIND MELD: The Forgotten Books of SF/F/H 2009

  • The festival's films were eclectic on steroids -- art house and stomp house, a few fruitcakes with a slew of bloodbaths, absolutely no dialogue and nothing but dialogue.

    Stewart Nusbaumer: Royal Flush Festival: One of a Strange Kind Stewart Nusbaumer 2010

  • The festival's films were eclectic on steroids -- art house and stomp house, a few fruitcakes with a slew of bloodbaths, absolutely no dialogue and nothing but dialogue.

    Stewart Nusbaumer: Royal Flush Festival: One of a Strange Kind Stewart Nusbaumer 2010

  • Either they remain obstinately in a state of denial and doublespeak, continuing, like Mubarak's police, to refer to "isolated acts," they persist, like Mubarak himself, in perceiving these bloodbaths as violence directed not at "a particular community" but at "the whole country."

    Bernard-Henri Lévy: How To Save The Christians Of The Middle East Bernard-Henri Lévy 2011

  • Previous extensions of the post-September 11 national security law have been political bloodbaths, but the news this time is that everyone is acting awfully grown-up.

    Patriot Act Miracle 2011

  • Either they remain obstinately in a state of denial and doublespeak, continuing, like Mubarak's police, to refer to "isolated acts," they persist, like Mubarak himself, in perceiving these bloodbaths as violence directed not at "a particular community" but at "the whole country."

    Bernard-Henri Lévy: How To Save The Christians Of The Middle East Bernard-Henri Lévy 2011

  • These and many other similar bloodbaths were hardly a secret.

    It's not the arithmetic of genocide that's important. It's that we pay attention | Ian Jack 2011

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