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Recent Examples of disembowel
These orcas have been seen disemboweling sharks and extracting their livers, a high-energy organ, with surgical precision.
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Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
If disembowelling a federal agency does somehow lead to higher reading and math scores, the federal workers who would have tracked this progress won’t be around to tell us about it.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2025
Analyzing the legendary unicorn tapestries hanging at the Met Cloisters in New York (augmented here by a gory new panel that depicts the suddenly fearsome animals disemboweling and impaling their aggressors), Ridley concludes that unicorns aren’t nearly as benevolent as most people think.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 9 Mar. 2025
You might be left out in the open air to live on in the form of the vultures that disembowel you, or, like the Tollund Man, you could be submitted to a peat bog upon your death so that your bones dissolve in the acidic environment while your skin remains perfectly preserved.
—Cutter Wood, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
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Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
If disembowelling a federal agency does somehow lead to higher reading and math scores, the federal workers who would have tracked this progress won’t be around to tell us about it.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2025
Analyzing the legendary unicorn tapestries hanging at the Met Cloisters in New York (augmented here by a gory new panel that depicts the suddenly fearsome animals disemboweling and impaling their aggressors), Ridley concludes that unicorns aren’t nearly as benevolent as most people think.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 9 Mar. 2025
You might be left out in the open air to live on in the form of the vultures that disembowel you, or, like the Tollund Man, you could be submitted to a peat bog upon your death so that your bones dissolve in the acidic environment while your skin remains perfectly preserved.
—Cutter Wood, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disembowel
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At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this year, Roborock showed off a vacuum with a robotic arm for automatically removing obstacles while cleaning floors.—
Evelyn Cheng,
CNBC,
12 June 2025
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His father rose from dishwasher to short-order cook while his mother cleaned houses.—
Linh Tat,
Chicago Tribune,
12 June 2025
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Backstage at Georgie’s Alibi Monkey Bar, a popular LGBTQ club in Wilton Manors, Jacob Smith carefully removed his gravity-defying, bejeweled blonde wig and light pink costume.—
Amanda Rosa,
Miami Herald,
13 June 2025
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If the Parliamentarian determines a provision in a bill violates the Byrd Rule, the provision must be removed from the bill unless the Senators vote to waive the rule—that requires 60 votes, instead of the lower 51 vote majority allowed for reconciliation.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2025
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Because the bill eviscerates spending on health care for the poor and makes changes to Obamacare insurance marketplaces that would hurt the lowest-income workers — while simultaneously slashing taxes in a way to help the wealthiest among us the most.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
15 June 2025
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If anyone needed further evidence that Kendrick Lamar eviscerated Drake in their feud, look no further than the response Lamar received while performing in Drake’s hometown of Toronto this week.—
Brittany Spanos,
Rolling Stone,
13 June 2025
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“Disembowel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disembowel. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.
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