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was lucky not to be mutilated in the car crash
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Recent Examples of mutilated
Alex Gurley, PEOPLE, 15 Jan. 2026
Hollywood isn’t the first industry to get folded, spindled, and mutilated.
—Lauren Bans, Vulture, 5 Jan. 2026
Highways, viaducts, giant interchanges, and a major Metro junction viciously mutilated São Paulo’s downtown in the 1960s and ’70s, demoting it from a popular residential area to a commercial transfer hub, overcrowded and polluted by day but forlorn by night.
—Michaëla De Lacaze Mohrmann, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
In their native East African country, the United Nations said that people with albinism are mutilated for body parts.
—Stephanie Stahl, CBS News, 15 Dec. 2025
The stone in question was discovered and hidden by Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou), a fisherman forced to work in the diamond fields after the rebel army of the Revolutionary United Front slaughtered or mutilated nearly everyone in his village.
—Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 8 Dec. 2025
The state’s soft-on-crime stance is her reality after her 20-year-old son was brutally killed and his body mutilated in Fresno by a young woman who now walks free, studying on a college campus with state support.
—Harriet Salarno, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2025
The killer targeted and gunned down couples parked in secluded spots on the city’s outskirts, and in several cases, the bodies of female victims were discovered to be mutilated.
—Isadora Wandermurem, Time, 22 Oct. 2025
Three of them were discovered later, mutilated, but one — Riley Brennan (Sarah Dunn) has never been found.
—Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 21 Oct. 2025
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Her body had been mutilated and cut in half with surgical precision.
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That may sound unfathomable to any non-comic reader who watched Steven Yeun's Mark Grayson get bludgeoned, maimed, and nearly disemboweled (sorry, Atom Eve) in an episode-long, cities-spanning fight with Thragg's berzerker warrior, Conquest (Jeffrey Dean Morgan).—
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However, researchers say the Western sanctions have also crippled Iran’s middle class – the base of the country’s reform movement – who see few opportunities for economic growth.—
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Except as soon as Guhle began skating on his own and ramping up his preparation, as soon as Xhekaj’s spot in the lineup appeared to be in imminent danger, as soon as the conditions that previously crippled him were beginning to manifest, his game improved.—
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Daou’s husband, Alain – who is also disabled and uses a wheelchair – removed the item’s tags and stayed behind to pay for it.—
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Last year, she was moved to a prison hundreds of miles from her disabled mother, who is seriously ill and scheduled to undergo brain surgery this spring.—
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Munoz-Guatemala was not incapacitated by the Taser, prosecutors said, and kept driving, taking Ross the length of a football field in 12 seconds.—
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With Macklin Good incapacitated, the car then careens to the side of the road, crashing into a parked car.—
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The driver was shot and wounded, and the passenger was injured when the van crashed seconds later, according to the original statement from DHS.—
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The attack in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region also wounded 10 people, local authorities said.—
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Damazio, a claiming-level 7-year-old gelding, was injured and threw jockey Adrian Escobedo in the second race last Sunday.—
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Santos injured Third-year wing Gui Santos has been a source of energy for the Warriors, often sparking the team with offensive boards and other effort plays that do not show up on the stat sheet.—
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The 13 apartments were damaged by fire, smoke or water.—
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But overloading the dishwasher can result in dirty dishes that need to be put through a second cycle to get clean, and dishes that are crammed in may become damaged.—
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“Mutilated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mutilated. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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