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

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2024

“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

State law is clear: It is a felony offense for anyone to “willfully and unlawfully remove, alter, mutilate, destroy, conceal or obliterate” a public record.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 18, 2022

There's times where you don't have to dissect a joke or mutilate a joke or ruin the joke in order to make it clear.

From Salon ● Jun. 18, 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 provision covers “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 ● Mar. 8, 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

The teacher must be experienced enough to recognize such unnecessary or superfluous incidents; otherwise he only mutilates his story in condensing it.

From Literature in the Elementary School by Porter Lander MacClintock

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

The students cheered and triumphantly threw the mutilated shoes into the air.

From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang

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

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2023

Meanwhile, humans seem to be "mutilating" the tree of life, according to some scientists, while climate change is threatening extinction.

From Salon ● Sep. 21, 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

These were the days of the mutilating super-radical mastectomy for certain breast cancers.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2016

Four of the men went to prison for six months for knowingly destroying or mutilating their cards.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge