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One legacy we don’t hear anything about in Turning Point is how the war continues to kill, maim, and sicken the Vietnamese people.

From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2025

Only the owner of a carrier or racing pigeon can injure, kill, maim, trap or detain their bird.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2023

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

The only way for a medical professional to declaw a cat, after all, is to permanently maim the animal's paws.

From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2022

The halt and maim and rheumatic come here, and those who seek for quiet and rest after months of drudgery at the desk’s dull wood.

From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Gordon Stables

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

“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

She’d begun painting only months earlier, after being injured in a traffic accident that maimed her for life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 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

As Angela meets with the maimed workers, they often tailor their testimonials to what they think will be most appealing to the corporation, their actual circumstance reduced to a pity-inducing performance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 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

Dr. Relf had never heard of anyone with a dæmon that was maimed in that way.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

Yes, SARS-2 is still spreading and maiming people today, but widespread immunity from past infections and vaccines has made the virus much less deadly.

From Salon ● May 11, 2026

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

It added that its mortality and outcomes data does not reflect claims of unnecessary deaths and maiming.

From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2023

"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