mutilation

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She said she was expecting there to be "sensible exceptions and exemptions" within the bill for travelling with pets and on some mutilations such as tail docking.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2024

I imagine you were overwhelmed with stories about abductions and sightings and cattle mutilations.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 16, 2023

The latest is a 512-acre ranch in rural Utah that is supposedly a “hotspot” for UFOs, poltergeists, animal mutilations and “shadow creatures.”

From Scientific American • Jun. 27, 2023

According to the History Channel, the FBI closed its investigation in 1980, saying that “none of the reported cases has involved what appear to be mutilations by other than common predators.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 23, 2023

For these and other reasons the printer of the Universal Register has added to its original name that of the Times, which, being a monosyllable, bids defiance to the corruptions and mutilations of the language.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter