eviscerate
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If something went awry, as things generally did, Jobs would find a scapegoat to eviscerate, preferably in front of everyone else.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026
He turns around and uses that wealth and power in order to eviscerate the very thing that helped create him.
From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2025
Big business has been trying to eviscerate anti-fraud laws for more than a century.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2024
Melt caves will eviscerate more and more glaciers—creating lakes that could release devastating floods.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 10, 2024
He didn’t know anyone who could eviscerate someone with words quite like Aunt Hila.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
Without a single scene of jungle combat, “Absolution” eviscerates the systems behind the Vietnam War.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2023
As is often the case, she speaks for the audience as the show knowingly eviscerates its male characters’ macho toxicity.
From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2021
Pierceson Coody steps in first and tees his ball, then eviscerates a drive that, when it finally lands, bounces and disappears over a ripple in the fairway some 315 yards away.
From Golf Digest ● Dec. 2, 2019
She eviscerates moral philosophers who believe that moral rules can be utterly divorced from biology and find a foundation based on reasoning alone.
From Nature ● May 27, 2019
It falls upon the tiny Crickets, eviscerates them, and devours them with frantic greed.
From Social Life in the Insect World by Bernard Miall
When Callum McGregor eviscerated his own team-mates in the wake of Celtic's stupefying Champions League collapse against LASK, he delivered their one coherent moment of a spineless night.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Trillions of dollars were created out of thin air and then eviscerated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
And this influencer, with a sharp blond bob and glass skin, is trying on jackets at a small-town Goodwill, where the merchandise has not yet been eviscerated by other consumers completing their own “hauls.”
From Slate ● Jan. 26, 2026
With the help of Elon Musk and DOGE, the largest funding agency for humanitarian and development aid worldwide was eviscerated.
From Salon ● Nov. 19, 2025
They'll be quoted, parsed, fact-checked, eviscerated by those who disagree, and then forgotten in the wake of new blurbs that come out tomorrow.
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
That one word proved surprisingly effective in eviscerating a former president known for name-calling.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2024
Sarah Paulson’s Daring Characters: The actress has received a Tony nomination for “Appropriate,” in which she portrays a woman who makes a sport out of verbally eviscerating her family members.
From New York Times ● May 19, 2024
“If we can just all agree that we don’t agree, we might make some progress instead of eviscerating each other and canceling each other.”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
She submitted her resignation letter to the prime minister and published the eviscerating text on Mail Online.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2023
Though his superior in sheer strength, she was much smaller and lighter than he, and less murderously armed for combat; and she dreaded the raking, eviscerating clutch of his terrible hinder claws.
From The House in the Water A Book of Animal Stories by Charles Livingston Bull
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The Things They Carried
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., "Beyond Vietnam" (1967)
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"On the Vietnam War, 1967," Vocabulary from the speech
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