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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

Anthony Seward was 20 when his hand was crushed in an industrial mangle - an injury that required multiple surgeries, including having the hand sewn into his abdomen to help it heal.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 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

They turn the mangle room, where wet clothes are wrung out to dry, into a studio so he can paint and draw at home.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

From there, activists could demand almost whatever they want: action on climate change, an end to mass surveillance and ICE raids, or an equitable health system that heals instead of mangles.

From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2025

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

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

Franco will have to work to “build out” his accent, but he’ll get bonus points from us if he mangles the ‘r’ in ¡compañero! — a.k.a. “comrade” in Cuban.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2022

What can there be in the mangles that attracts butterflies?

From The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens

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

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

Its mangled wreckage was recovered in 2001 with the craft handed to Coniston's Ruskin Museum two years ago following the settlement of an ownership row with Bill Smith, the engineer who led its rebuild.

From BBC ● May 11, 2026

I’m so busy staring at the mangled box that I don’t realize Ma is watching me.

From "Dragons in a Bag" by Zetta Elliott

“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

Despite a later reputation for mangling his words, Prescott's performance in the conference hall was an impassioned tour de force.

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

On a sunny 60-degree Sunday in Seattle, the stadium radiated Cubs support, even mangling the only interchangeable word in “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.”

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 14, 2024

Thus the name they chose, “kuklux,” a slight mangling of kuklos, the Greek word for “circle.”

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt