brutalization
Americannoun
plural
brutalizationsExample Sentences
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Those Black people who survived the living hell of the Middle Passage and then centuries of enslavement and brutalization were not an undifferentiated mass of brutes as conceptualized by the white popular imagination.
From Salon • Jul. 28, 2023
The art, often stark but occasionally playful, addresses what Rosso calls “terricide”: brutalization of the Earth, women and Indigenous people, and cultures.
From Washington Post • Aug. 11, 2021
“In order to have a society in which public issues can be openly and vigorously debated,” Alito wrote, “it is not necessary to allow the brutalization of innocent victims.”
From Slate • Jun. 27, 2014
"Lucky Guy" follows the story of tabloid reporter Mike McAlary, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for his coverage on the New York City police brutalization of Abner Louima.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 28, 2012
Again sufferings, necessary to nobody, utterly uncalled for; again fraud; again the universal stupefaction and brutalization of men.
From Bethink Yourselves! by Chertkov, V. G. (Vladimir Grigorevich)
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