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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

But doctors warn that such “button batteries” can maim and kill.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 29, 2024

"Even if they're fed and sterilized, cats retain their instinct to hunt. They are not native wildlife—they are an invasive species. They terrorize, maim, and kill animals who don't stand a chance against them."

From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2022

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

In 1722 came the Black Act which made it felony without benefit of clergy to “unlawfully or maliciously kill, maim, or wound any cattle.”

From The Law and the Poor by Edward Abbott Parry

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

The supreme leader has remained largely out of the public eye and is believed to have been badly maimed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 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

He jerked to his feet and made his way wordlessly to the doors, limping on his maimed feet.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

But when this colossal chess game ends with the Mistress of Mayhem maiming her adversary, “The Art of Personal Chaos” transitions into something even more extraordinary.

From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2025

It added that its mortality and outcomes data does not reflect claims of unnecessary deaths and maiming.

From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2023

"I believe this will end up in dialogue ... rather than killing and maiming and chasing away."

From Reuters ● Nov. 21, 2023

“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