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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

But whether she uses the term “African American woman” or “Black woman,” machine distortions that mangle facial features and hair textures occur at high rates.

From New York Times ● Jul. 4, 2023

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

Ms Bowler said the ring had had "a charmed life" and had been damaged going through a mangle, but it was not expensive jewellery that caught her mother's eye.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2021

They turn the mangle room, where wet clothes are wrung out to dry, into a studio so he can paint and draw at home.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

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

The radiation inflicts photochemical damage that mangles nucleic acids—inactivating pathogenic viruses and bacteria, although not necessarily killing them.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 22, 2022

But “Queenpins” mangles any and all possibilities for trenchant social commentary.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2021

If we forsake her, infamy, that is now kept at bay, will seize upon her, and, while it mangles her form, will tear from her her innocence.

From Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Charles Brockden Brown

Whether artificial intelligence created the mangled pages remains unanswered.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

The eerie ambient music that drives “Obsession” — so artfully serrated and delicately mangled by Burwell — emerged from a counterintuitive creative nuance that AI could never capture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

The lab report concluded that flying debris from the tail section mangled a great black-backed gull whose wing was found on a rooftop with other debris.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026

Pacific island Nauru said it will hold a referendum to change its official name, described as a colonial relic from a time when "foreign tongues" mangled the native language.

From Barron's ● May 13, 2026

Clare tugged his hood farther over his mangled ear and, dropping to all fours, sprang across the street.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

“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

On a sunny 60-degree Sunday in Seattle, the stadium radiated Cubs support, even mangling the only interchangeable word in “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.”

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 14, 2024

Bartholomew wore khaki trousers pulled up high on his belly, and spoke with an American accent filled with holes, mangling words until they were impossible to understand.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie