mangle

If “to toss and mangle these poor human bodies was the . . . law of Nature,” Thoreau asks us, “why waste any time in awe or pity?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

But whether she uses the term “African American woman” or “Black woman,” machine distortions that mangle facial features and hair textures occur at high rates.

From New York Times ● Jul. 4, 2023

Anthony Seward was 20 when his hand was crushed in an industrial mangle - an injury that required multiple surgeries, including having the hand sewn into his abdomen to help it heal.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2023

To slightly mangle Bruce Springsteen's "Born To Run": the market's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance Powell drive; everybody's out on the run tonight, and there's no place left to hide.

From Reuters ● Mar. 7, 2023

The tablecloth came out the other end of the mangle, and I dropped it into a hickory basket.

From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson

From there, activists could demand almost whatever they want: action on climate change, an end to mass surveillance and ICE raids, or an equitable health system that heals instead of mangles.

From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2025

If he mangles the facts or ignores them altogether, which he does often, Seales said there are other news sites and sources where viewers can fact-check him.

From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2024

The radiation inflicts photochemical damage that mangles nucleic acids—inactivating pathogenic viruses and bacteria, although not necessarily killing them.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 22, 2022

The 10-episode series, which mangles facts and embellishes personalities, nonetheless captures the Showtime spirit and actually gets some of it right.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2022

What can there be in the mangles that attracts butterflies?

From The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens

For 25 years, the only physical trace Juliette Scauso had from the last day of her father's life was his mangled firefighter helmet.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

The documentary powerfully captures the apocalyptic landscape of Gaza City, its streets reduced to rubble and mangled rebar, and the weighty sense of responsibility shouldered by the few remaining journalists on the ground.

From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026

Whether artificial intelligence created the mangled pages remains unanswered.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

John Schaeffer sent pictures of his Ram 1500, mangled by a head-on accident with a Tesla.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026

Still and all: better to have mangled a raven than another human being.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

Circuit Court of Appeals especially had a field day mangling this area of the law.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026

“Steve ‘Manouychin’ really gave me a ‘beauty’ when he pushed this loser,” Trump posted on social media External link in August, apparently deliberately mangling Mnuchin’s name.

From Barron's ● Dec. 24, 2025

Often ridiculed by parliamentary sketch writers for mangling the English language, to supporters he appeared an ordinary man facing the intellectual bullying by people with a better education.

From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2024

The storm sheared the roof and walls off the building, mangling metal beams and leaving battered cars in the parking lot.

From Seattle Times ● May 26, 2024

Her English is as rubbish as my French, but though we persist in thoroughly mangling both languages, we understand each other pretty well.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein