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mauled

[mawld] / mɔld /


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He treasures that trait even as he has hidden it beneath armor to avoid “being too badly mauled by the vicissitudes of life.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 26, 2025

Their pack mauled forward from a line-out and an opportunist Van Poortvliet saw a gap to sneak in.

From BBC • Jun. 14, 2025

Matthew, as his own son Trev would later reflect, had always “felt mauled by Aldous and burdened by his massive family legacy,” as he said in a video interview in December, 2023.

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2025

In 2019, an 83-year-old homeless man was mauled by a black bear while sleeping in the foothills of the San Gabriel Valley.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2025

It’s like those horror movies where the person about to be mauled to death could have saved herself if she’d taken only one more step but she stops to be polite or something.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt