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

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

If your taste turns to fowl, at your request the bird suspended by its heels is halved, quartered, or wholly dismembered.

From The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza by Boyd, Mary Stuart