Soviet campaign of political repression, imprisonment, and execution.
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Examples for "great terror"
Examples for "great terror"
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Ye dogg was in a great terror, and frantic in its bonds.
2
The domestic animals came in great terror, straight toward the wild beasts.
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Those who had taken part with Mpepe were consequently in great terror.
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In the girl's expression was an outraged wonder and a great terror.
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The next day, to our great terror, we saw the serpent again.
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Newspapers carried articles detailing facets of the great purge.
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However, the great purge is aimed not at man but at man's best friend -they are coming for the dogs.
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Even before the great purge, Google+ users and bloggers were grappling with the social network's "real names only" policy.
4
And Reagan's great purge aside, state agencies are generally reluctant to use the same heavy-handed and sometimes illegal methods as companies to block unionisation efforts.
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The two of them must evidently have been swallowed up in one of the first great purges of the fifties.
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These man-hunts in Spain went on at the same time as the great purges in the USSR and were a sort of supplement to them.