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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A horrible series of futile uprisings against impossible odds and always ending in butchery and defeat for the rebels.
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He had a slight grievance against the landowner, we understand, but hardly enough to account for this butchery .
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I have felt the same shock and outrage since I lived in the Lakeside area and watched the butchery of those trees.
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It was born of fear for her grandfather, he thought as he returned to his butchery of the President's shotgun.
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It was not fighting, it was butchery .
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One can easily imagine how this apparent butchery of corpses might be misinterpreted by a stranger unaccustomed to such a practice.
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They feared that their troops might acquire a taste for such butchery and become no better than those they fought against.