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The court’s action imperils the CPSC’s ability to ban products that may maim or kill consumers, including children, giving corporations freer rein to flood the market with dangerous goods.

From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2025

In severe cases, he said, offenders can be required to plant two trees for every one they maim.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2023

They can kill or maim trees, leaving scarring that allows an entry point for other tree pests and diseases which can stunt their growth.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2022

The word "monster" means a creature without empathy, without caring, willing to kill or maim or hurt or destroy anything in its path for its own purposes, a sadistic creature lacking normal human capacities.

From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2022

Pascal laid aside mathematics; Origen doctored his body with a knife; every day some one is thus mortifying his dearest interests and desires, and, in Christ’s words, entering maim into the Kingdom of Heaven.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

No matter what happens to them — no matter how the world paints them, vilifies them, maims them — they were here, and at least for a moment, they owned their own lives.

From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2019

Agnieszka is a simple village girl who is gifted to her local wizard, The Dragon, as payment for thwarting the advance of the ominous Wood, which kills or maims any who enter it.

From The Guardian ● May 21, 2019

It’s a pervasive scourge that damages all of us, that directly maims the lives of women and leaves us all in chains.

From Salon ● May 16, 2016

Although it maims its victims, brucellosis seldom kills them.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Oh, defend us from death and horrible maims,** he is reported to have said, “for I see well we be in great peril of death.”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

She’d begun painting only months earlier, after being injured in a traffic accident that maimed her for life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026

Maj Lipsky acknowledges the civilian suffering in Gaza and does not deny the imagery of dead and maimed women and children.

From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2024

But many other protesters — understandably aroused by videos of starving, maimed, or dying Gazan children — aren’t thinking that far ahead.

From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2024

As Angela meets with the maimed workers, they often tailor their testimonials to what they think will be most appealing to the corporation, their actual circumstance reduced to a pity-inducing performance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2024

His small beard was well peppered with grey, and he wore a leather glove on his maimed left hand.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

Today I arrived at the course with a single objective: Finish without maiming any creature, especially myself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

But when this colossal chess game ends with the Mistress of Mayhem maiming her adversary, “The Art of Personal Chaos” transitions into something even more extraordinary.

From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2025

Polio ran riot in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, killing and maiming scores of children.

From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2024

"I believe this will end up in dialogue ... rather than killing and maiming and chasing away."

From Reuters ● Nov. 21, 2023

“Most people are going to have a hard enough time accepting that we’re not monsters, without reports about us maiming innocent people,” Clancy said.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken