maim
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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 approaches Bruce is said to have rendered difficult by pitfalls, and even by caltrops to maim the horses.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 by Rossiter Johnson
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
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“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
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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
Imagine a statement that shows empathy not only for kidnapped civilians but also for those killed, maimed, made homeless.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 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
Harry glanced over his shoulder to where the small, maimed creature trembled under the chair.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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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
Polio ran riot in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, killing and maiming scores of children.
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2024
"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
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