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But animal welfare charities worry that any carve-outs would be exploited by smugglers to continue trading, and would see those who illegally mutilate dogs in the UK avoid prosecution.

From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2025

“We have concluded on the basis of present evidence that Nosenko was dispatched to the West to mutilate counterintelligence leads which had been revealed by Golitsyn,” Angleton said.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 1, 2023

One particular law makes it a felony for someone in possession of government records to willfully mutilate, obliterate or destroy them.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 9, 2022

“Sitting still in the modern world, going deep inside yourself, is not an easy thing. If you start to mutilate sacred space, you start to lose touch with a big part of being human.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2022

I don’t know, I guess I always thought I’d turn out okay, no matter how badly my many schools tried to mutilate me.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi

The law punishes “whoever corruptly alters, destroys, mutilates or conceals a record, document or other object … or otherwise obstructs, influences or impedes any official proceeding.”

From Washington Post ● Dec. 12, 2022

There was no camaraderie because this system mutilates your emotions - you feel nothing.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2017

Especially if the Common App mutilates the formatting on applicant essays and you say there’s no way to fix it.

From Slate ● Nov. 25, 2013

If it mutilates the magazine, the kids will buy a second as a collectible.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2010

They make such good use of it that one of them, the commune of Paris, taking advantage of its proximity, lays siege to, mutilates, and rules the National Convention, and through it France.

From The French Revolution - Volume 1 by John Durand

Mr. Hemming writes that upon Miller’s death, doctors found 23 battle scars, a large wound on his right abdominal cartilage, two rifle balls lodged in his liver, and mutilated fingers on his left hand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

Our glamorous and gruesome history is all there in a close-up of “Chinatown’s” Jack Nicholson: a movie star with a mutilated nose.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2026

Danny Chambers, the Liberal Democrat MP for Winchester and vet, has the government's support and the law would crack down on the import of dogs and cats that are mutilated or heavily pregnant.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2025

They can cause dangerous diseases like Cryptococcus neoformans and Candida auris among our own kind, massacre beloved fellow animals like frogs and bats and even turn less-charismatic animals like cicadas into horrifyingly mutilated zombies.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2024

He slumped against the wall, muttered some­thing under his breath, and crossed his mutilated foot over the good one.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

Many mutilating and distressing skin disorders such as skin cancers and deep fungal infections were also confused with leprosy by the general public.

From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2024

Former prime minister Boris Johnson has warned, however, against "mutilating" the project in a letter to Rishi Sunak.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2023

I’ve heard countless stories from friends of the anxiety that comes from mutilating a piece of clothing, hoping that the finished product doesn’t look atrocious.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2023

Both testicles were eventually removed – he called it “the mutilating surgery”.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 9, 2020

“Professor,” drawled Malfoy, “Weasley’s mutilating my roots, sir.”

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling