blood diamond

[bluhd dahy-muhnd, dahy-uh-]

noun

1. a diamond that is sold, often on the black market, to finance armed conflict in the region of origin.

   Many buyers are now refusing to purchase blood diamonds for ethical reasons.

Word History and Origins

Origin of blood diamond¹

First recorded in 1995–2000

Example Sentences

His other five acting nominations were for “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape,” “The Aviator,” “Blood Diamond,” “The Wolf of Wall Street” and “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood.”

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Dr Vines, who formerly worked as a blood diamond investigator for the UN, is concerned that gold has become Africa's new main conflict commodity.

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Chalamet still feels a little like Leonardo DiCaprio in the 2000s, when he was king of the world, pulling in nominations for such films as “The Aviator,” “Blood Diamond” and “The Wolf of Wall Street” but coming up short before finally winning for “The Revenant.”

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I visited Sierra Leone in 2012 to see the reality after the movie “Blood Diamond.”

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For Baldwin, Watanabe and Hounsou, this was their first nomination; only Hounsou has gone on to another nomination, in 2007 for “Blood Diamond.”

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