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mutilate

[myoot-l-eyt] / ˈmjut lˌeɪt /


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But animal welfare charities worry that any carve-outs would be exploited by smugglers to continue trading, and would see those who illegally mutilate dogs in the UK avoid prosecution.

From BBC Dec. 6, 2025

“The DGA strongly opposes the use of AI or any other technology to mutilate a film or to alter a director’s vision,” the DGA said in a statement.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 30, 2025

“We have concluded on the basis of present evidence that Nosenko was dispatched to the West to mutilate counterintelligence leads which had been revealed by Golitsyn,” Angleton said.

From Washington Times Jan. 1, 2023

State law is clear: It is a felony offense for anyone to “willfully and unlawfully remove, alter, mutilate, destroy, conceal or obliterate” a public record.

From Seattle Times Aug. 18, 2022

I don’t know, I guess I always thought I’d turn out okay, no matter how badly my many schools tried to mutilate me.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi

The provision covers “whoever corruptly alters, destroys, mutilates or conceals a record, document or other object...or otherwise obstructs, influences or impedes any official proceeding.”

From Washington Post Mar. 8, 2022

There was no camaraderie because this system mutilates your emotions - you feel nothing.

From BBC Sep. 27, 2017

Especially if the Common App mutilates the formatting on applicant essays and you say there’s no way to fix it.

From Slate Nov. 25, 2013

If it mutilates the magazine, the kids will buy a second as a collectible.”

From New York Times Oct. 1, 2010

Man mutilates the lovely face of Nature's sweetest sylvan retreats.

From The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance by Savage, Richard

Mr. Hemming writes that upon Miller’s death, doctors found 23 battle scars, a large wound on his right abdominal cartilage, two rifle balls lodged in his liver, and mutilated fingers on his left hand.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 17, 2026

Our glamorous and gruesome history is all there in a close-up of “Chinatown’s” Jack Nicholson: a movie star with a mutilated nose.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 15, 2026

They can cause dangerous diseases like Cryptococcus neoformans and Candida auris among our own kind, massacre beloved fellow animals like frogs and bats and even turn less-charismatic animals like cicadas into horrifyingly mutilated zombies.

From Salon Oct. 18, 2024

He said: "It makes no sense at all to deliver a mutilated HS2", adding there was a "need" for the rail link in the north of England.

From BBC Sep. 22, 2023

Pages of tables and designs for instruments were probably often torn out for ready reference, leaving mutilated copies.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Conservationists say they hate mutilating these anmals, whose magnificent horns are integral to their being.

From Salon Jun. 16, 2025

Former prime minister Boris Johnson has warned, however, against "mutilating" the project in a letter to Rishi Sunak.

From BBC Sep. 24, 2023

“Moon Knight” is not the first time that an MCU title has been called out for mutilating an Asian language.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 13, 2022

Both testicles were eventually removed – he called it “the mutilating surgery”.

From The Guardian Apr. 9, 2020

Four of the men went to prison for six months for knowingly destroying or mutilating their cards.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge




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