mauled

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They eventually got a foothold when Lleucu George's superb touch finder earned a five metre line-out, which Wales mauled over the line for Callender to score.

From BBC • Aug. 23, 2025

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

In 2019, an 83-year-old homeless man was mauled by a black bear while sleeping in the foothills of the San Gabriel Valley.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2025

If a showtime crowd liked your performance, when you came off you were mobbed, mauled, grasped, and pummeled like the team that’s just taken the series.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey