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The court’s action imperils the CPSC’s ability to ban products that may maim or kill consumers, including children, giving corporations freer rein to flood the market with dangerous goods.

From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2025

I love this quote by Ntozake Shange: “i cant count the number of times i have viscerally wanted to attack deform n maim the language that i was taught to hate myself in.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2025

They can kill or maim trees, leaving scarring that allows an entry point for other tree pests and diseases which can stunt their growth.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2022

The word "monster" means a creature without empathy, without caring, willing to kill or maim or hurt or destroy anything in its path for its own purposes, a sadistic creature lacking normal human capacities.

From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2022

Bound to one triumph, of one travail born, Doomed to one death, in one brief life we moil; The pangs that maim us and the powers that spoil Are common sorrows heired from worlds outworn.

From Ioläus The man that was a ghost by James Allan Mackereth

No matter what happens to them — no matter how the world paints them, vilifies them, maims them — they were here, and at least for a moment, they owned their own lives.

From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2019

Agnieszka is a simple village girl who is gifted to her local wizard, The Dragon, as payment for thwarting the advance of the ominous Wood, which kills or maims any who enter it.

From The Guardian ● May 21, 2019

It’s a pervasive scourge that damages all of us, that directly maims the lives of women and leaves us all in chains.

From Salon ● May 16, 2016

Although it maims its victims, brucellosis seldom kills them.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Oh, defend us from death and horrible maims,** he is reported to have said, “for I see well we be in great peril of death.”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

She’d begun painting only months earlier, after being injured in a traffic accident that maimed her for life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026

But many other protesters — understandably aroused by videos of starving, maimed, or dying Gazan children — aren’t thinking that far ahead.

From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2024

Many more are maimed by the venom’s muscle-destroying toxins, as existing treatments are largely ineffective at preventing tissue death.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 16, 2024

“The vast majority of people who are being killed or maimed by snake bites are village farmers and children working out in the fields without shoes.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2023

His small beard was well peppered with grey, and he wore a leather glove on his maimed left hand.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

Primarily affecting children, polio wrecked havoc in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, killing and maiming scores of children.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

Yes, SARS-2 is still spreading and maiming people today, but widespread immunity from past infections and vaccines has made the virus much less deadly.

From Salon ● May 11, 2026

Why, then, did Mullin so freely refuse to apologize to the Republican committee chairman for joking about his maiming?

From Slate ● Mar. 18, 2026

Navy has faced, maiming more ships than any other means of attack since World War II, according to a U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

“Most people are going to have a hard enough time accepting that we’re not monsters, without reports about us maiming innocent people,” Clancy said.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken