dismembered

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“There he tinkered with dismembered clocks and toasters, and the pathos of dismantled gears, springs and wires infected him with a tenderness for mechanisms that spill their guts for all the world to see.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

Ghafoor’s connection to Khashoggi, the Saudi dissident and Washington Post columnist who was killed and dismembered by Saudi agents in Turkey in 2018, has raised the profile of the case.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 10, 2022

In 1993, ABC aired a Saturday morning cartoon show, "Tales From the Cryptkeeper," that featured a somewhat softer approach to the morbid material: characters didn't die, and being dismembered was off-limits.

From Salon • Aug. 8, 2022

In Turkey, Kemal Ataturk had built a modern European secular republic - a Turkish nation-state - after the multi-ethnic Ottoman Empire had been defeated and dismembered in 1918.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2022

The composite paragon enshrined in her heart gave a final lurch and then fell headlong, to lie dismembered and disregarded, Dagon-like, at the foot of his own pedestal.

From A Safety Match by Hay, Ian