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If you experience especially brutal winters, consider heated mittens.
Best mittens: Keep your hands cozy|PopSci Commerce Team|February 8, 2021|Popular-Science
Though Goff has accomplished plenty as the Rams’ signal-caller since head coach Sean McVay took over in 2017, the contrast with his brutal rookie season under Jeff Fisher sure made it seem like that success was more about McVay than Goff.
The Rams And Lions Both Got What They Wanted|Ty Schalter|February 1, 2021|FiveThirtyEight
It’s an episode that at first appears to depict the fall of a brutal institution.
The 5 Best New Shows Our TV Critic Watched in January 2021|Judy Berman|January 29, 2021|Time
That’s back-to-back brutal NFC championship game losses for Rodgers, who also knows the Packers will move on to Love as the starter at some point.
Predicting the future for Deshaun Watson, Aaron Rodgers and other star NFL quarterbacks|John Clayton|January 26, 2021|Washington Post

Ignoring the brutal repercussions of Africa’s diamond trade, the woman notes that “the locals were sitting on a fortune and they didn’t even realize it.”
‘Lupin’ is a thrilling heist series, but it goes deeper than that|Bethonie Butler|January 21, 2021|Washington Post
The army has since conducted a brutal wave of jailings against activists and journalists.
Behind Bars for the Holidays: 11 Political Prisoners We Want to See Free In 2015|Movements.Org|December 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Matthew Fenner claims members of the North Carolina-based The Word of Faith Fellowship subjected him to a brutal attack.
Beaten By His Church for Being Gay|Justin Jones|December 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Currently, there are many millions of Muslims who vehemently oppose ISIL and the brutal current in Islam that it represents.
ISIS Has a Message. Do We?|Jamie Dettmer|December 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Bill Murray has been accused by his ex-wife of repeated, brutal physical abuse.
It’s Not Just Cosby: Hollywood’s Long List of Male Scumbags|Asawin Suebsaeng|November 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But he lost and his brutal career was over thanks to John Doar and the Voting Rights Act.
Honoring The Late John Doar, A Nearly Forgotten Hero Of The Civil Rights Era|Gary May|November 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
There was a cry from Tip—a sound of splintering wood—something seemed to strike me a brutal blow.
The Soldier of the Valley|Nelson Lloyd
But the loathsome death of this brutal voluptuary soon delivered the church from the most implacable of its foes.
The Catacombs of Rome|William Henry Withrow
How refinedly brutal is this constant care lest the hangman be robbed of his prey!
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist|Alexander Berkman
One would think that the chorus should rather give the son a severe reprimand for speaking in so brutal a manner to his father.
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 1 (of 10)|Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)
Charges of incapacity, cruelty, brutal insolence, were hurled backward and forward.
The History of England from the Accession of James II.|Thomas Babington Macaulay

British Dictionary definitions for brutal

brutal

/ (ˈbruːtəl) /

adjective

cruel; vicious; savage

extremely honest or coarse in speech or manner

harsh; severe; extremebrutal cold

Derived forms of brutal

brutality, nounbrutally, adverb

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