do violence
Example Sentences
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As professors Daniel Hemel and Eric Posner observe, construing the word “whoever” to mean “whoever except the president” would do violence to the English language.
From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2024
But a panel of five judges on the Court of Final Appeal unanimously overturned both the conviction and sentence on Friday, saying such a wide interpretation "would do violence to the language".
From Reuters ● Jul. 15, 2022
Hospital-based violence intervention can only succeed when it’s closely linked with organizations working to do violence interruption and street outreach.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 16, 2022
Perhaps Americans have become accustomed to the president’s tweets and don’t believe he would do violence to his primary communications platform.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 29, 2020
But neither does scientific zeal and incorruptibility require us to do violence to the facts in order to secure this uniformity of type.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.
