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maim

[meym] / meɪm /


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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

In severe cases, he said, offenders can be required to plant two trees for every one they maim.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2023

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

These great companies should take care of the men they maim; they should look out for the ones whose lives they have used and whose labor has been the foundation of their prosperity.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures by Robert Green Ingersoll

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

But Claire had been silent, appearing without warning from the swirling gray mist, and his maimed feet made it impossible for him to jump and run.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry

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

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

From BBC Dec. 2, 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




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