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Six example sentences with atrocity, each labelled with its topic.
Museums preserve these records so that the atrocity of the era is never softened into a distant statistic.
History
The tribunal was created to weigh the atrocity of what had been done, not merely to count the broken statutes.
Law
Arendt argued that the atrocity of a regime can grow from ordinary clerks who never once question a form.
Philosophy
Critics praised how the novel conveys the atrocity of the famine through small details rather than any grand speech.
Literature
The senator's speech dwelt on the atrocity of the regime's prisons and insisted that no trade deal be signed until they emptied.
Politics
The documentary lets survivors describe the atrocity of those years in their own words, with no music underneath.
Movies
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- Israeli Psychometric English dictionary (Campus IL / NITE)Authoritative
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- GRE Word List 4700 (widely used study list)Recognized
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