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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

“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

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

He not always hated because he mutilates humanity so much, as because his spectacular graft in surgery is sure to be taken as proof conclusive that he is superior in all other departments of therapeutics.

From Quacks and Grafters by Unknown

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

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

It will also tackle a separate animal welfare issue by closing a loophole which allows dogs and cats which have been mutilated to be brought into Britain.

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2024

A second piece of bacon was mutilated and consumed in two carnivorous gulps.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

Do you feel the Endangered Species Act provides the government with enough tools to stave off this so-called "mutilating of the tree of life," at least in the United States?

From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2023

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