dismembered
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“If the President’s House is left dismembered throughout this dispute, so too is the history it recounts, and the City’s relationship to that history,” Rufe wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2026
Only, sometimes, these cadavers are not truly donated — and the dead person never consented to have their body dismembered.
From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2024
Now the dismembered statue has become a symbol of a city - and a nation - struggling to reckon with its darkest chapters.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2024
No toes or feet were dismembered in the celebration.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2023
Always master of ceremonies in such matters, Billy did the carving and a good-sized thimble would have contained all that remained of the roast fowl, apart from the dismembered skeleton, when supper was over.
From The Auto Boys' Quest by James A. (James Andrew) Braden