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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Karlin witnessed inhumane savagery during the war.
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The book tells of the boys' rapid descent into savagery , and the use of torture and terror.
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Thompson condemned the murder as 'an appalling attack of savagery '.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At this time the brutality of the vicious Communist thugs was snowballing into cold-blooded savagery .
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In the old world the race of Man had risen from savagery to being the dominant civilisation in two short millennia.
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Nobody knew whether or not it worked but we derived a certain pleasure from the savagery of the gambit.
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The tension between them was destroyed with such wanton savagery that Melanie fell limply back and struggled with tears.
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To allow savagery to remain is to allow evil to remain.