mutilation
Example Sentences
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Those who suffered torture and other acts of mutilation will receive individualised rehabilitation programmes, it added.
From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026
Halfway through college, Russell spent two months in Tanzania assisting a nonprofit that taught female genital mutilation survivors how to make clothes to support themselves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2026
He said: "The Trump administration will not allow these human rights violations, such as the mutilation of children, laws that infringe on free speech, and racially discriminatory employment practices, to go unchecked."
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2025
It inspired his themes—war, fear, mutilation, endurance, courage, comradeship and death—and his laconic and stoical, virile and aggressive heroes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
I stare at her face, wondering if her parents actually named her Tigris, inspiring her mutilation, or if she chose the style and changed her name to match her stripes.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
