brutalize
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Whether or not he decides to appear at the trial, scheduled to begin later this year, the A.G. can use his videoed deposition testimony to brutalize him the same way Carroll’s lawyers did.
From Slate ● May 11, 2023
The Conversation asked Rashad Shabazz, a geographer and scholar of African American studies at Arizona State University, to explore the societal conditions in which Black police officers could brutalize another Black man.
From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2023
He said the new commissioner should also commit to firing police officers who “abuse, harass, brutalize, and kill” and promote transparency by releasing more disciplinary records.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 6, 2022
“It will consume government. It will brutalize people. It will cost taxpayers millions of dollars,” he said.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 10, 2021
The weight of the sand began to brutalize her shoulders.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
Any overacting brutalizes Cheever's prose; mugging is the artistic equivalent of a mugging.
From Time Magazine Archive
A sophist is a forger, and this forger sometimes brutalizes good sense.
From The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo
It unfailingly changes the expression; frequently, it degrades and brutalizes the face.
From The Winning Clue by James Hay
It brutalizes the men and prevents the growth of feminine qualities, coyness among others.
From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry Theophilus Finck
All punishment which is not tempered with forgiveness is brutal; and brutalizes both punisher and punished.
From Practical Ethics by William De Witt Hyde
That the ’70s American psyche, brutalized by Watergate and Vietnam, found solace in Castaneda’s sophistry isn’t surprising.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
This is not the first time I have encountered a situation where the hapless staff find themselves brutalized by loud, idiotic, or culturally discordant music.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2025
This is about as much of a review of “All’s Fair” worth venturing at this point, since pretty much every critic has brutalized the show.
From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2025
Mr. Trump complained about the charges against him and then about his own lawyers, whom he verbally brutalized privately throughout the trial.
From New York Times ● May 31, 2024
In the kitchen, she hacked at a chunk of ham with a knife and brutalized an onion.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
Dahlia and Mark sort through the brutalizing, even lethal implications for asylum seekers and more than 1 million recipients of temporary protected status, or TPS.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026
Los Angeles built off the momentum, brutalizing Arizona with eight straight designed runs to start off a 75-yard touchdown drive to open the third quarter.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 16, 2023
Levinson is perhaps not enough of a formalist to fully convey, assuming any film could, the combined visceral and mental toll professional boxing must have taken on a man haunted by brutalizing his comrades.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2022
Not, how do we ensure that the police are not brutalizing the Black community?
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2021
Three thousand children crowded into this ugly brutalizing school that had facilities for only one thousand.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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