mauled
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Days before a Times reporter visited Matson’s property, a pack of wild dogs dug under his fence and fatally mauled his only surviving adult ostrich, Bam Bam.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
She went on to be the UN rights chief, a sensitive role in which she alienated some countries, especially China, which mauled her for reporting on Beijing's alleged abuses of the country's Uyghur minority group.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
Their pack mauled forward from a line-out and an opportunist Van Poortvliet saw a gap to sneak in.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2025
Matthew, as his own son Trev would later reflect, had always “felt mauled by Aldous and burdened by his massive family legacy,” as he said in a video interview in December, 2023.
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2025
Well, I didn’t know a thing about perming black people’s hair and my frst customer was a black woman and I mauled that woman’s hair.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
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