Example Sentences

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Mr Osimen describes any preaching encouraging witch-hunting as a misinterpretation of Bible verses.

From BBC • Oct. 25, 2024

In the summer of 2021, after six years of lobbying by a coalition of witch-hunt survivors, nongovernmental organizations, academics and lawyers, the United Nations passed a resolution condemning witch-hunting and ritual attacks.

From Scientific American • May 31, 2023

Historians have traced connections between peaks of the Little Ice Age and spikes in witch-hunting activities.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Junkies of recent continental and feminist philosophy will recognize the mood music: Rosi Braidotti’s theories of the posthuman, Silvia Federici’s analyses of witch-hunting as gendered violence.

From New York Times • Apr. 30, 2022

“Ambuya says witch-hunting is a way to get rid of people nobody likes. She says it’s illegal in Zimbabwe.”

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer