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
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
Speaking about the medicalization of female genital mutilation, Pallitto clarified, “When we talk about medicalization it's not necessarily that it's done by a doctor.”
From Salon • Feb. 20, 2024
Irmgard gazed fixedly at the TV screen, and Pris had ceased her mutilation of the spider.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
