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
Only, sometimes, these cadavers are not truly donated — and the dead person never consented to have their body dismembered.
From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2024
It was Coyolxauhqui, carefully portrayed in stone as the dismembered lunar goddess who lost a battle against her brother, the Sun.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 6, 2023
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 carcase of one of the springbuck had been dismembered and divided by lot among the faithful six.
From Lodges in the Wilderness by W. C. (William Charles) Scully
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