eviscerate

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

The technology “threatens to eviscerate workers’ rights and cause widespread job loss,” the group said in a joint letter with AFL-CIO leaders in different states.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026

She rarely shows up in viral clips because she doesn’t tend to eviscerate anyone or lose it on air.

From Slate ● May 15, 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

The already precarious labor market is being eviscerated by further automation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

The match-winning try scored by Italy utility back Leonardo Marin once again involved a line-break in the 10-metre channel - a microcosm of England's vulnerabilities out wide after being eviscerated there by Scotland and Ireland.

From BBC ● Mar. 13, 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

Just a few years after welfare reform eviscerated the social safety net and proclaimed the era of “personal responsibility,” Silliker retrofitted the church annex and opened a free medical clinic.

From Salon ● Jul. 21, 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

They melt down publicly, with Moore’s Linda famously eviscerating a suspicious pharmacist, and privately, with Cruise’s Frank raging at the dying of his father’s light.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2024

She wrote her debut album in the midst of chaos, pouring all of those experiences into 15 gritty, eviscerating songs that swerve between rock, emo, pop, screamo and nu metal.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 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

In announcing the Eugene outlet, Doctor noted that like Santa Cruz, “the area has seen the result of chain ownership eviscerating a once-well-established daily,” The Register-Guard.

From Seattle Times ● May 8, 2024

But to Jeff every covert or thicket within a radius of fifty yards was an ambush for lynxes, and only at his master's heels did he feel secure from their swift and eviscerating claws.

From Hoof and Claw by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts