mangle

If “to toss and mangle these poor human bodies was the . . . law of Nature,” Thoreau asks us, “why waste any time in awe or pity?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

To slightly mangle Bruce Springsteen's "Born To Run": the market's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance Powell drive; everybody's out on the run tonight, and there's no place left to hide.

From Reuters ● Mar. 7, 2023

Giant pumps that send water south through aqueducts mangle the critters or draw them into the grasp of lurking predators.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2023

Then I mangle a “merci” and step between the tables, each crowded with young tech workers speaking in euphonic blends of French and English, to a stool by the window overlooking the crowded street.

From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2022

The tablecloth came out the other end of the mangle, and I dropped it into a hickory basket.

From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson

In 2026, though, at a time when social media too often mangles critical thinking and disagreement, it is downright extraordinary.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026

Where, literally, would Angelenos be without the flying eyes that guide us to our destinations through our traffic mangles and bring us close to mayhem, riot and fire?

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

If he mangles the facts or ignores them altogether, which he does often, Seales said there are other news sites and sources where viewers can fact-check him.

From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2024

Mr. Biden sometimes mangles his words and looks older than he used to because of his stiff gait and thinning voice.

From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2023

Dire and awful dangers and miscellaneous horrors, even to being carried off by maladies among mangles in an atmosphere stiff with mosquitoes, but not that!

From West African studies by Mary Henrietta Kingsley

For years afterward, Angelenos collected firewood from the mangled forest of broken tree branches the waters left behind.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

For 25 years, the only physical trace Juliette Scauso had from the last day of her father's life was his mangled firefighter helmet.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

Whether artificial intelligence created the mangled pages remains unanswered.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

Along the roads around Izyum burnt-out shells of petrol stations have become part of the landscape, heaps of mangled, charred metal.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

It was hard to tell exactly how many because they were mangled.

From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds

Circuit Court of Appeals especially had a field day mangling this area of the law.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026

“Steve ‘Manouychin’ really gave me a ‘beauty’ when he pushed this loser,” Trump posted on social media External link in August, apparently deliberately mangling Mnuchin’s name.

From Barron's ● Dec. 24, 2025

In 1812, a year of dramatic battles in North America, Europe and Russia, some Russians founded a Sonoma County outpost called Fort Ross, probably an Anglicized mangling of the word “Russ,” for Russia.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2025

Often ridiculed by parliamentary sketch writers for mangling the English language, to supporters he appeared an ordinary man facing the intellectual bullying by people with a better education.

From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2024

Thus the name they chose, “kuklux,” a slight mangling of kuklos, the Greek word for “circle.”

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt