eviscerate
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If something went awry, as things generally did, Jobs would find a scapegoat to eviscerate, preferably in front of everyone else.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026
He turns around and uses that wealth and power in order to eviscerate the very thing that helped create him.
From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2025
Big business has been trying to eviscerate anti-fraud laws for more than a century.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2024
Melt caves will eviscerate more and more glaciers—creating lakes that could release devastating floods.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 10, 2024
He was able to eviscerate opponents with his eloquence and intellect.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
As is often the case, she speaks for the audience as the show knowingly eviscerates its male characters’ macho toxicity.
From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2021
The culminating tussle causes massive damage on screen, but it’s the heavy CGI that truly eviscerates whatever drama might be had.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2021
Good luck trying to look away while she eviscerates the institution.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 18, 2021
Pierceson Coody steps in first and tees his ball, then eviscerates a drive that, when it finally lands, bounces and disappears over a ripple in the fairway some 315 yards away.
From Golf Digest ● Dec. 2, 2019
It falls upon the tiny Crickets, eviscerates them, and devours them with frantic greed.
From Social Life in the Insect World by Bernard Miall
Trillions of dollars were created out of thin air and then eviscerated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
Courts have allowed the broad electronic privacy protections in the federal Wiretap Act to be eviscerated by companies claiming consent.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2026
The match-winning try scored by Italy utility back Leonardo Marin once again involved a line-break in the 10-metre channel - a microcosm of England's vulnerabilities out wide after being eviscerated there by Scotland and Ireland.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026
And this influencer, with a sharp blond bob and glass skin, is trying on jackets at a small-town Goodwill, where the merchandise has not yet been eviscerated by other consumers completing their own “hauls.”
From Slate ● Jan. 26, 2026
They'll be quoted, parsed, fact-checked, eviscerated by those who disagree, and then forgotten in the wake of new blurbs that come out tomorrow.
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
She wrote her debut album in the midst of chaos, pouring all of those experiences into 15 gritty, eviscerating songs that swerve between rock, emo, pop, screamo and nu metal.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2024
That one word proved surprisingly effective in eviscerating a former president known for name-calling.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2024
Sarah Paulson’s Daring Characters: The actress has received a Tony nomination for “Appropriate,” in which she portrays a woman who makes a sport out of verbally eviscerating her family members.
From New York Times ● May 19, 2024
“If we can just all agree that we don’t agree, we might make some progress instead of eviscerating each other and canceling each other.”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
When the eye is destroyed by panophthalmitis, the propriety of eviscerating or enucleating it will have to be considered.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
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The Things They Carried
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., "Beyond Vietnam" (1967)
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