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But animal welfare charities worry that any carve-outs would be exploited by smugglers to continue trading, and would see those who illegally mutilate dogs in the UK avoid prosecution.

From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2025

“We have concluded on the basis of present evidence that Nosenko was dispatched to the West to mutilate counterintelligence leads which had been revealed by Golitsyn,” Angleton said.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 1, 2023

State law is clear: It is a felony offense for anyone to “willfully and unlawfully remove, alter, mutilate, destroy, conceal or obliterate” a public record.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 18, 2022

“Sitting still in the modern world, going deep inside yourself, is not an easy thing. If you start to mutilate sacred space, you start to lose touch with a big part of being human.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2022

I don’t know, I guess I always thought I’d turn out okay, no matter how badly my many schools tried to mutilate me.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi

The provision covers “whoever corruptly alters, destroys, mutilates or conceals a record, document or other object...or otherwise obstructs, influences or impedes any official proceeding.”

From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2022

There was no camaraderie because this system mutilates your emotions - you feel nothing.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2017

Especially if the Common App mutilates the formatting on applicant essays and you say there’s no way to fix it.

From Slate ● Nov. 25, 2013

If it mutilates the magazine, the kids will buy a second as a collectible.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2010

At the same time that he is trying to close the village school, he mutilates the Collège de France.

From Napoleon the Little by Victor Hugo

Mr. Hemming writes that upon Miller’s death, doctors found 23 battle scars, a large wound on his right abdominal cartilage, two rifle balls lodged in his liver, and mutilated fingers on his left hand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

Our glamorous and gruesome history is all there in a close-up of “Chinatown’s” Jack Nicholson: a movie star with a mutilated nose.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2026

They can cause dangerous diseases like Cryptococcus neoformans and Candida auris among our own kind, massacre beloved fellow animals like frogs and bats and even turn less-charismatic animals like cicadas into horrifyingly mutilated zombies.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2024

Construction cranes were used to lift out the burnt-out and mutilated vehicles.

From Seattle Times ● May 2, 2024

She grew tense as fine steel when he traced the mutilated contours with his finger tip from a pit in her shoulder blade almost to the base of her spine.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

Conservationists say they hate mutilating these anmals, whose magnificent horns are integral to their being.

From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2025

Former prime minister Boris Johnson has warned, however, against "mutilating" the project in a letter to Rishi Sunak.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2023

“Moon Knight” is not the first time that an MCU title has been called out for mutilating an Asian language.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2022

Both testicles were eventually removed – he called it “the mutilating surgery”.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 9, 2020

“Professor,” drawled Malfoy, “Weasley’s mutilating my roots, sir.”

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling