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If “to toss and mangle these poor human bodies was the . . . law of Nature,” Thoreau asks us, “why waste any time in awe or pity?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

Anthony Seward was 20 when his hand was crushed in an industrial mangle - an injury that required multiple surgeries, including having the hand sewn into his abdomen to help it heal.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2023

To slightly mangle Bruce Springsteen's "Born To Run": the market's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance Powell drive; everybody's out on the run tonight, and there's no place left to hide.

From Reuters ● Mar. 7, 2023

Then I mangle a “merci” and step between the tables, each crowded with young tech workers speaking in euphonic blends of French and English, to a stool by the window overlooking the crowded street.

From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2022

Grandfather watched from the shade as I cranked the wheel of the mangle.

From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson

If he mangles the facts or ignores them altogether, which he does often, Seales said there are other news sites and sources where viewers can fact-check him.

From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2024

Mr. Biden sometimes mangles his words and looks older than he used to because of his stiff gait and thinning voice.

From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2023

The radiation inflicts photochemical damage that mangles nucleic acids—inactivating pathogenic viruses and bacteria, although not necessarily killing them.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 22, 2022

But “Queenpins” mangles any and all possibilities for trenchant social commentary.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2021

One Shaker community manufactures washing-machines and mangles on a large scale, and another makes staves for molasses hogsheads.

From The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation by Charles Nordhoff

Nearly a century after the crash of the Hindenburg airship, the images of towering flames and mangled metal haven’t lost their power.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

For 25 years, the only physical trace Juliette Scauso had from the last day of her father's life was his mangled firefighter helmet.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

The documentary powerfully captures the apocalyptic landscape of Gaza City, its streets reduced to rubble and mangled rebar, and the weighty sense of responsibility shouldered by the few remaining journalists on the ground.

From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026

Whether artificial intelligence created the mangled pages remains unanswered.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

This doesn’t look like a face but like an unknown vegetable, a mangled bulb or tuber, something that’s grown wrong.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

Circuit Court of Appeals especially had a field day mangling this area of the law.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026

“Steve ‘Manouychin’ really gave me a ‘beauty’ when he pushed this loser,” Trump posted on social media External link in August, apparently deliberately mangling Mnuchin’s name.

From Barron's ● Dec. 24, 2025

Despite a later reputation for mangling his words, Prescott's performance in the conference hall was an impassioned tour de force.

From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2024

In his characteristic manner, the judge mixed commendation, supplication and insinuation, mangling metaphors and whole sentences in service of cutting insights.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2024

Thus the name they chose, “kuklux,” a slight mangling of kuklos, the Greek word for “circle.”

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt