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Whether or not he decides to appear at the trial, scheduled to begin later this year, the A.G. can use his videoed deposition testimony to brutalize him the same way Carroll’s lawyers did.

From Slate ● May 11, 2023

Specifically, a few decades of drought pushed the Huns to the brink, forcing them to brutalize others in pursuit of survival.

From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2022

“It will consume government. It will brutalize people. It will cost taxpayers millions of dollars,” he said.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 10, 2021

“I didn’t brutalize anybody!” he feels the need to tell the people who see him.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 7, 2021

The weight of the sand began to brutalize her shoulders.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman

Any overacting brutalizes Cheever's prose; mugging is the artistic equivalent of a mugging.

From Time Magazine Archive

You must remember that such toil brutalizes a man; it makes him callous, selfish, unfeeling necessarily.

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)

A sophist is a forger, and this forger sometimes brutalizes good sense.

From The Man Who Laughs by Hugo, Victor

It is not the Creator who so brutalizes lives and emotions.

From Highland Ballad by Leadem, Christopher

It unfailingly changes the expression; frequently, it degrades and brutalizes the face.

From The Winning Clue by Hay, James

That the ’70s American psyche, brutalized by Watergate and Vietnam, found solace in Castaneda’s sophistry isn’t surprising.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026

This is not the first time I have encountered a situation where the hapless staff find themselves brutalized by loud, idiotic, or culturally discordant music.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2025

This is about as much of a review of “All’s Fair” worth venturing at this point, since pretty much every critic has brutalized the show.

From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2025

Mr. Trump complained about the charges against him and then about his own lawyers, whom he verbally brutalized privately throughout the trial.

From New York Times ● May 31, 2024

The teachers and children here were not as brutalized as in the old school.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

Dahlia Lithwick: These were incredibly consequential gut punches, two more in a long sequence of brutalizing cases.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026

While Roger Federer is depicted as James Bond, in a tux, elegant and wrinkle-free, Nadal is called Rambo, ripped and relentless, brutalizing the ball and opponents alike.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026

Los Angeles built off the momentum, brutalizing Arizona with eight straight designed runs to start off a 75-yard touchdown drive to open the third quarter.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 16, 2023

In Philipps’s meticulously assembled and brilliantly written account, he is not a warrior driven mad by the stress of combat, a good guy gone rogue or a victim of a brutalizing culture.

From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2021

Three thousand children crowded into this ugly brutalizing school that had facilities for only one thousand.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith