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If “to toss and mangle these poor human bodies was the . . . law of Nature,” Thoreau asks us, “why waste any time in awe or pity?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

But whether she uses the term “African American woman” or “Black woman,” machine distortions that mangle facial features and hair textures occur at high rates.

From New York Times ● Jul. 4, 2023

To slightly mangle Bruce Springsteen's "Born To Run": the market's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance Powell drive; everybody's out on the run tonight, and there's no place left to hide.

From Reuters ● Mar. 7, 2023

Ms Bowler said the ring had had "a charmed life" and had been damaged going through a mangle, but it was not expensive jewellery that caught her mother's eye.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2021

Sailing away in his imagination from the daily mangle of ship-breaking life.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi

If he mangles the facts or ignores them altogether, which he does often, Seales said there are other news sites and sources where viewers can fact-check him.

From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2024

Mr. Biden sometimes mangles his words and looks older than he used to because of his stiff gait and thinning voice.

From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2023

The radiation inflicts photochemical damage that mangles nucleic acids—inactivating pathogenic viruses and bacteria, although not necessarily killing them.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 22, 2022

The 10-episode series, which mangles facts and embellishes personalities, nonetheless captures the Showtime spirit and actually gets some of it right.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2022

The kangaroo dog never mangles his prey although fond of the blood, with a portion of which he is always rewarded.

From Forest and Frontiers Or, Adventures Among the Indians by Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming

Whether artificial intelligence created the mangled pages remains unanswered.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

The eerie ambient music that drives “Obsession” — so artfully serrated and delicately mangled by Burwell — emerged from a counterintuitive creative nuance that AI could never capture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

The lab report concluded that flying debris from the tail section mangled a great black-backed gull whose wing was found on a rooftop with other debris.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026

Pacific island Nauru said it will hold a referendum to change its official name, described as a colonial relic from a time when "foreign tongues" mangled the native language.

From Barron's ● May 13, 2026

A baby carriage lay mangled on its side, dusted with snow.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys

“Steve ‘Manouychin’ really gave me a ‘beauty’ when he pushed this loser,” Trump posted on social media External link in August, apparently deliberately mangling Mnuchin’s name.

From Barron's ● Dec. 24, 2025

Often ridiculed by parliamentary sketch writers for mangling the English language, to supporters he appeared an ordinary man facing the intellectual bullying by people with a better education.

From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2024

In his characteristic manner, the judge mixed commendation, supplication and insinuation, mangling metaphors and whole sentences in service of cutting insights.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2024

OK, apologies to John Belushi’s character in “Animal House” for mangling his epic rallying cry, but no, of course it isn’t.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 27, 2023

It wasn't just a present, but a present she received because she'd torn her other coat beyond repair, mangling her knee, leaving a permanent scar.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse