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One legacy we don’t hear anything about in Turning Point is how the war continues to kill, maim, and sicken the Vietnamese people.

From Slate ● Apr. 30, 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

The only way for a medical professional to declaw a cat, after all, is to permanently maim the animal's paws.

From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2022

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

An implement formerly strewn on the ground in war to maim horses: No. 221.

From The Handbook to English Heraldry by R. B. Utting

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

Many more are maimed by the venom’s muscle-destroying toxins, as existing treatments are largely ineffective at preventing tissue death.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 16, 2024

For hundreds of years after his death the sick and the maimed and the blind came for healing to his temples.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

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

Primarily affecting children, polio wrecked havoc in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, killing and maiming scores of children.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

Why, then, did Mullin so freely refuse to apologize to the Republican committee chairman for joking about his maiming?

From Slate ● Mar. 18, 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

“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