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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

Anthony Seward was 20 when his hand was crushed in an industrial mangle - an injury that required multiple surgeries, including having the hand sewn into his abdomen to help it heal.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 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

I could mangle every single word of my Torah portion and I wouldn’t let down anybody’s expectations.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

From there, activists could demand almost whatever they want: action on climate change, an end to mass surveillance and ICE raids, or an equitable health system that heals instead of mangles.

From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2025

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

It happens every wunst in a while, when you was running the mangles and was tired.

From The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself by Richardson, Dorothy

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

Such gaps are not abstract — they represent real human lives that are lost or mangled.

From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2026

On the night of Jan. 29, Tim was in a hotel room in New Jersey between flights when he turned on the TV and saw mangled aircraft sinking into the Potomac.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026

One car’s wheels have been removed; another sports a mangled fender.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2026

The mangled, glued-together suit I have with me is my original one.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

“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

Despite a later reputation for mangling his words, Prescott's performance in the conference hall was an impassioned tour de force.

From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2024

The storm sheared the roof and walls off the building, mangling metal beams and leaving battered cars in the parking lot.

From Seattle Times ● May 26, 2024

MAIS, OU There’s no excuse for mangling words that come from foreign languages.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner