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Hudson, now 24, later apologised for the posts and called them "barbarities" and "dark humour".

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2024

"Quino built the story with very human characters through the eyes of children, who say terrible barbarities with no filter," series director Lorena Munoz told Reuters.

From Reuters • Sep. 26, 2023

Exceptions include the veteran British graphic artist Sue Coe, who finds focus for her classic Expressionism and her lifelong sorrow and anger at human barbarities.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 25, 2019

When we see people fighting against those barbarities, that is part and parcel of America too.

From Salon • Nov. 3, 2019

Information being given to Congress of some outrages and wanton barbarities, committed on subjects of France by the enemy, on their landing in Virginia, the following resolutions were passed.

From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Volume X (of 12) by Various