bloodbath
Americannoun
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bloodbaths
plural
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a ruthless slaughter of a great number of people; massacre.
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Informal. a period of disastrous loss or reversal.
A few mutual funds performed well in the general bloodbath of the stock market.
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a widespread dismissal or purge, as of employees.
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Most major stock indexes rose after Friday’s bloodbath.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
"The aim was to avoid a bloodbath and bring the actors back to reason," a senior Vatican source said.
From Barron's ● Feb. 3, 2026
Faced with the prospect of intervention becoming full-scale war, and under strong domestic popular pressure to avoid any such bloodbath, Ecowas leaders backed off - opting to rely on sanctions.
From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2025
Executives for OpenAI, the maker of popular chatbot ChatGPT, have pushed back against the prediction that a massive white-collar job bloodbath is coming.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2025
While one might expect such an edict to produce a bloodbath, very few gleanings ever took place.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
At a time when it’s increasingly difficult to discern what’s real and what’s not, especially on our phones, that more sophisticated story never gets told, in favor of more throwback-style bloodbaths and showboating bad-guy speeches.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2025
While the Raiders-Broncos rivalry ranks a notch below the mud-baths and bloodbaths that define the Steelers-Browns and Packers-Bears rivalries, it’s always meant something extra to the players.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 16, 2022
“I remember playing five vs. five, which are often bloodbaths with these teams,” she said.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 26, 2021
Carey switches the formula, spending much more time on the infection and humanity’s attempts to conquer it than on bloodbaths.
From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2014
But as well as a rabid online fanbase, Being Human also quickly established its own supernatural mythology and unique tone – one where bloodbaths and sit-in marathons of the real hustle could sit scene-by-scene.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 8, 2013
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