dismember

He’s seen ants work as a team to dismember prey in minutes.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 22, 2024

Microsoft famously ignored having a Washington presence until the Justice Department attempted to dismember it on antitrust grounds.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 13, 2023

Instead, the victors deprived the French of their conquests and imposed a modest indemnity, but they did not dismember the country.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020

“I stand with them. Our job is to strengthen the V.A. in order to provide high-quality care to our veterans, not dismember it.”

From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2018

I’m pretty sure the only thing you could dismember is a sandwich.”

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

"The French do not expect from the Macron leadership that it dismembers our overseas territories behind their backs," she said, describing the territories as "true levers of power, influence and economic development".

From Barron's ● Dec. 18, 2025

Fine takes on this king of all biases with admirable vigor, and it’s a pleasure — albeit a strenuous one — to follow the action as she dismembers the beast.

From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2017

That distinction belongs to the Financial Stability Oversight Council—the beak with which Dodd-Frank dismembers its prey. 

From Forbes ● Jul. 7, 2014

And he digs a deeper hole by mangling the Beatles' She's Leaving Home, whose lyric he dismembers with bizarre changes of tone, volume and intonation.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 5, 2011

Surely no fate can be too bad for the man who dismembers books.

From The Book-Hunter at Home by P. B. M. Allan

If the lease was found to be consistent with the intent of Congress, “the entire West LA campus could be dismembered by private entities that provide marginal benefits to veterans,” he wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2023

A dark cloud hangs over the whole enterprise, with the perils of the sea and forbidden love illustrated by long, discordant drones and dismembered sounds.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2023

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

“It started very early,” he said, producing as evidence a faded, dismembered copy of the U.N.’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights that he received as a teenager in school and still carries in his wallet.

From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2022

In the theatres the least allusion brought down thunders of applause, and at the end of the piece heralds appeared on the stage waving the banners of the dismembered provinces.

From Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, 7th ed. Vol. 2 of 2 by John Lloyd Stephens

Ingo Arndt captured the red wood ants efficiently dismembering a blue ground beetle to carry into their nest.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2024

During the war, a number of proposals for dismembering the empire had been considered.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

As Mr. Ipalensenda reached a fallen African rosewood tree that he was in the process of dismembering, he called out to his co-workers who were tending a nearby kiln.

From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2022

“Despite my strength at the polls, I could not stop the General Assembly from dismembering Nashville,” he said in making his announcement on Tuesday.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 28, 2022

Once the third aunt who worked at the laundry ran out and bought us bags of candy to hold over our noses; my mother was dismembering skunk on the chopping block.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston