bloodbath
Americannoun
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a ruthless slaughter of a great number of people; massacre.
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Informal. a period of disastrous loss or reversal.
A few mutual funds performed well in the general bloodbath of the stock market.
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a widespread dismissal or purge, as of employees.
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Most major stock indexes rose after Friday’s bloodbath.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
"The aim was to avoid a bloodbath and bring the actors back to reason," a senior Vatican source said.
From Barron's • Feb. 3, 2026
Executives for OpenAI, the maker of popular chatbot ChatGPT, have pushed back against the prediction that a massive white-collar job bloodbath is coming.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 5, 2025
There was the chicken breast I marinated in lemon juice, rice vinegar and balsamic reduction — a trio I would now classify, gently, as a vinaigrette bloodbath.
From Salon • Jul. 4, 2025
While one might expect such an edict to produce a bloodbath, very few gleanings ever took place.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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