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mangled

ADJECTIVE
mutilated
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ADJECTIVE
bitten
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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

Viktoria Haidai surveys the mangled remains of the printing press, which should have been busy churning out textbooks ready for the new school year.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

Whether artificial intelligence created the mangled pages remains unanswered.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

The eerie ambient music that drives “Obsession” — so artfully serrated and delicately mangled by Burwell — emerged from a counterintuitive creative nuance that AI could never capture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

Just before they had stopped for lunch the drill had found something thirty feet down that had mangled the steel as though it were lead.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck




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