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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

It would stiffen the maximum penalties for people who willfully steal, destroy, conceal, mutilate or alter such records from $1,000 and one year in prison to $10,000 and two years in prison.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2022

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

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

But "we have to do something to prevent more people from being mutilated, especially children," he said.

From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026

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

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

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

“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

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