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“The DGA strongly opposes the use of AI or any other technology to mutilate a film or to alter a director’s vision,” the DGA said in a statement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2025

Cassandra Pybus says there is no doubt that Crowther did mutilate Lanne, citing letters he wrote.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2024

Prosecutors accuse the former president of trying to “alter, destroy, mutilate, or conceal evidence,” and of inducing another person to do so.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 28, 2023

“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

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

Editors, he predicted, would reject the concept “because it mutilates the magazine.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2010

At the same time that he is trying to close the village school, he mutilates the Collège de France.

From Napoleon the Little by Hugo, Victor

Aristotle recognized that we take pleasure in viewing fictional representations of tragedies, suffering and mutilated corpses that would repulse us if we confronted them in reality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 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

As if he had mutilated the language in his fury—and now there was nothing to stand between them and his raw, dumb anger.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

Conservationists say they hate mutilating these anmals, whose magnificent horns are integral to their being.

From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2025

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

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2023

“Moon Knight” is not the first time that an MCU title has been called out for mutilating an Asian language.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2022

A statement issued by Russia’s health ministry said: “The international medical community concurs that the so-called female circumcision is a mutilating practice and is not anything positive.”

From The Guardian ● Nov. 5, 2016

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

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