as in mutilated
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as in fumbled
to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way
you've mangled this so badly that we'll have to do it over
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Cat Cardenas, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2024
Smash cut to the next day, and her mangled corpse is found in a pool of her own blood outside the Bramford apartment complex, having jumped to her death.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 20 Sep. 2024
Men traded belongings for bicycles and scooters and dumped them after reaching the other side — a mangled monument to their leader’s ambitions.
—Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024
The difference very well could be the video footage, which shows the Key Bridge dropping span by span into the river, mere moments after it was struck: a proud highway one second and a mangled wreck the next.
—Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 29 Apr. 2024
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Scattered across the sand was the wreckage of a massive passenger jet; one wing from the mangled fuselage pointed up toward the sky, all surrounded in a haze of smoke and fire.
—Cat Cardenas, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2024
Smash cut to the next day, and her mangled corpse is found in a pool of her own blood outside the Bramford apartment complex, having jumped to her death.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 20 Sep. 2024
Men traded belongings for bicycles and scooters and dumped them after reaching the other side — a mangled monument to their leader’s ambitions.
—Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024
The difference very well could be the video footage, which shows the Key Bridge dropping span by span into the river, mere moments after it was struck: a proud highway one second and a mangled wreck the next.
—Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 29 Apr. 2024
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“Mangled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mangled. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.
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