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Recent Examples of barbarism
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.
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Katie Robertson, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
This story illuminates how differing priorities and a lack of self-awareness can cause major societal fractures, fostering groupthink and barbarism.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 26 Dec. 2024
Newspapers sounded off on the barbarism.
—Dan Austin, Detroit Free Press, 23 Dec. 2024
There are no words to describe the barbarism.
—Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 7 Oct. 2024
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Katie Robertson, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
This story illuminates how differing priorities and a lack of self-awareness can cause major societal fractures, fostering groupthink and barbarism.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 26 Dec. 2024
Newspapers sounded off on the barbarism.
—Dan Austin, Detroit Free Press, 23 Dec. 2024
There are no words to describe the barbarism.
—Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 7 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for barbarism
Noun
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There is a romance of illiteracy here, as if poetry should be looked at instead of thoughtfully read.—
Andrea Long Chu,
Vulture,
6 May 2025
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One act of economic illiteracy would therefore sabotage both Medicaid and Medicare simultaneously.—
Sally Pipes,
Forbes.com,
3 May 2025
Noun
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Trump’s disdain for classic neoliberal U.S. soft power — and for the values and institutions that uphold it — is likely to hurt American interests in just the same way his tariff regime and utter ignorance of real-world trade theory do.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
7 May 2025
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The pathos here thus depends largely on the reader’s total ignorance of Vietnamese.—
Andrea Long Chu,
Vulture,
6 May 2025
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“Barbarism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/barbarism. Accessed 12 May. 2025.
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